D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus" ) is a message-oriented middleware mechanism that allows communication between multiple processes running concurrently on the same … See more

Most existing D-Bus implementations follow the architecture of the reference implementation. This architecture consists of two main … See more

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Although there are several implementations of D-Bus, the most widely used is the reference … See more

• D-Bus home page at Freedesktop.org
• D-Bus specification
• Introduction to D-Bus on the Freedesktop.org wiki
• D-Bus Tutorial
• DBus Overview See more

Bus model
Every connection to a bus is identified in the context of D-Bus by what is called a bus name. A bus name consists of two or more dot-separated … See more

D-Bus was started in 2002 by Havoc Pennington, Alex Larsson (Red Hat) and Anders Carlsson. The version 1.0—considered API stable—was released in November 2006.
Heavily influenced by the DCOP system used by versions 2 … See more

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