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| author | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2005-01-23 00:28:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> | 2005-01-23 00:28:41 +0000 |
| commit | 76ee87af5b5007839012259304cce50a43e69638 (patch) | |
| tree | c293c4a139d41630af05b606c02453bbae4b829b /doc/dbus-tutorial.xml | |
| parent | a5671a72d00cf33224371e268b6e39897c4b45c8 (diff) | |
the new tutorial/FAQ
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml b/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml index ccb12d4c..6f5afc07 100644 --- a/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml +++ b/doc/dbus-tutorial.xml @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ </address> </affiliation> </author> + <author> + <firstname>David</firstname> + <surname>Wheeler</surname> + </author> </authorgroup> </articleinfo> @@ -101,11 +105,16 @@ <para> There are many, many technologies in the world that have "Inter-process communication" or "networking" in their stated purpose: <ulink - url="http://www.mbus.org/">MBUS</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.omg.org">CORBA</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://www.opengroup.org/dce/">DCE</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://www.microsoft.com/com/">COM/DCOM</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html">DCOP</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.xmlrpc.com">XML-RPC</ulink>, <ulink - url="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/">SOAP</ulink>, and probably hundreds - more. Each of these is tailored for particular kinds of application. + url="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/">SOAP</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://www.mbus.org/">MBUS</ulink>, <ulink + url="http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html">Internet Communications Engine (ICE)</ulink>, + and probably hundreds more. + Each of these is tailored for particular kinds of application. D-BUS is designed for two specific cases: <itemizedlist> <listitem> @@ -130,7 +139,8 @@ have significant previous experience with different IPC solutions such as CORBA and DCOP. D-BUS is built on that experience and carefully tailored to meet the needs of these desktop projects - in particular. + in particular. D-BUS may or may not be appropriate for other + applications; the FAQ has some comparisons to other IPC systems. </para> <para> The problem solved by the systemwide or communication-with-the-OS case |