wok annotate dbus/description.txt @ rev 19866
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author | Christophe Lincoln <pankso@slitaz.org> |
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date | Sun Mar 26 21:40:53 2017 +0200 (2017-03-26) |
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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. |
al@17992 | 4 |
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. |
al@17992 | 10 |
al@17992 | 11 It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java. |