wok-current annotate dbus/description.txt @ rev 18987

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author Leonardo Laporte <hackdorte@sapo.pt>
date Thu Mar 17 05:14:19 2016 -0300 (2016-03-17)
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al@17992 1 D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications.
al@17992 2 Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of
al@17992 3 complexity.
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al@17992 5 D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing
al@17992 6 latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages
al@17992 7 are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method
al@17992 8 call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the
al@17992 9 system quite simple.
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al@17992 11 It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.