CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page Preface 1 Getting Started Before Installing ACA Services Installing ACA Services After Installing ACA Services Location of Installed Files and Libraries 2 Overview Overview of ACA Services Using the ACA Services Macintosh Interface 3 Configuring ACA Services Determining the Needs of Your System Verifying Key ACA Services Components Verifying the System Context Object Verifying the System Class Repository Configuring ACA Services for your Environment Setting the Network Transport Setting the Authentication for System Security Identifying Nodes Defining Your Local Node Accessing Services on Remote Nodes Defining Remote Host Nodes on Your Macintosh Setting Up Server Node Communication Testing the Installation and Configuration Conserving Disk Space 4 ACA Services Macintosh Information Location of Context Objects Context Object Attributes for Macintosh 5 Writing ACA Services Applications for Macintosh Performing Callbacks on the Macintosh Dispatching ACA Services Events on the Macintosh Creating Servers on the Macintosh Freeing Network Resources Defining MPW Environment Variables Building ACA Services Applications Using MPW Using the Object Request Broker Programming Library Linking Additional Repository Routines Building the Programming Examples 6 Troubleshooting Tips for DECnet and TCP/IP Transports Insufficient DECnet Resources Insufficient TCP/IP Sockets Errors on Undefined Local and Remote Nodes FIGURES 1-1 ACA Services Version 2.1 Window 1-2 Window in ACA Services Installation 1-3 Select Destination Folder... Dialog Box 2-1 ACASWin Window 3-1 Context Object Browser Dialog Box 3-2 Load Context Object Dialog Box 3-3 Class Repository Browser Dialog Box 3-4 Load Classes Dialog Box 3-5 Transport/Authentication Dialog Box 3-6 Node Definitions Dialog Box 3-7 Select Control Server Dialog Box 3-8 Control Server Dialog Box TABLES 1 Typeface Conventions 1-1 Contents of DEC ACA Services Library.sea Archive 1-2 Contents of DEC ACA Services-R.sea Archive 1-3 Contents of DEC ACA Services-D.sea Archive 3-1 Authentication Settings 4-1 Additional Context Object Attributes