wok-6.x
annotate dbus/description.txt @ rev 20842
updated dolibarr (3.1.0 -> 9.0.0)
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Wed Feb 20 16:50:14 2019 +0100 (2019-02-20) |
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1 D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications.
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2 Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of
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3 complexity.
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5 D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing
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6 latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages
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7 are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method
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8 call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the
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9 system quite simple.
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11 It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.
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