Distributed Computing Services Framework - XDCS Author:The Open Group This document describes a comprehensive blueprint for a complete system software environment that will provide for portability and interoperability of distributed applications. The Framework identifies the required services, the relationships between them, the programming interfaces that provide for portability of applications, and the ... more » protocols and data formats that provide interoperability between systems that support these services. The Framework represents a broad consensus on the elements in a complete distributed computing environment, including the XPG, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and the UI-ATLAS Distributed Computing Framework.« less