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authorHavoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>2005-01-23 03:53:34 +0000
committerHavoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>2005-01-23 03:53:34 +0000
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</question>
<answer>
<para>
- If you imagine a C++ program that implements a network
- service, then the bus name is the domain name
- of the computer running this C++ program, the object path
- is a C++ object instance pointer, and an interface is a C++
- class (a pure virtual or abstract class, to be exact).
+ If you imagine a C++ program that implements a network service, then
+ the bus name is the hostname of the computer running this C++ program,
+ the object path is a C++ object instance pointer, and an interface is
+ a C++ class (a pure virtual or abstract class, to be exact).
</para>
<para>
In Java terms, the object path is an object reference,
@@ -120,11 +119,12 @@
</para>
<para>
However, a text editor application could as easily own multiple bus
- names (for example, <literal>org.kde.KWrite</literal>), have multiple
- objects (maybe <literal>/org/kde/documents/4352</literal>),
- and each object could implement multiple interfaces,
- such as <literal>org.freedesktop.Introspectable</literal>,
- <literal>org.freedesktop.BasicTextField</literal>,
+ names (for example, <literal>org.kde.KWrite</literal> in addition to
+ generic <literal>TextEditor</literal>), have multiple objects (maybe
+ <literal>/org/kde/documents/4352</literal> where the number changes
+ according to the document), and each object could implement multiple
+ interfaces, such as <literal>org.freedesktop.Introspectable</literal>,
+ <literal>org.freedesktop.BasicTextField</literal>,
<literal>org.kde.RichTextDocument</literal>.
</para>
</answer>