[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: D-BUS question

Fri Jul 14 20:11:53 EEST 2006

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Burton" <ross at burtonini.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:03 PM
Subject: [maemo-developers] Re: D-BUS question

> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 19:55 +0300, Dionisis Petromanolakis wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i want to make an application running on a normal desktop computer to
>> communicate with maemo. Has anyone done something similar, are there
>> any sources, tutorial available that could help me?
>>
>> Can i do this using D-BUS or i have to do it through normal unix
>> sockets? I ve read about D-BUS and everywhere says that it is created
>> for applications placed in the same computer. All the sample code i
>> can find is about communication on a single computer, but in the site
>> of d-bus it says that it can also be used for application that are not
>> in the same machine.
>
> You can do D-Bus over TCP, but it's not advised.  You'd be better
> creating your own protocol, or re-using an existing one.
>
> Ross
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hi Ross,

do you have any links for a protocol that i could use or at least use as a 
reference to create mine?

thanx
dionysis 