Re: XEmbed ipc semantics

[Navindra Umanee <navindra cs mcgill ca>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> Well, the canonical example in this area is Bonobo, a complete CORBA
> framework for interprocess widget and (to some extent) document 
> embedding that uses XEMBED.
> 
> But that doesn't really count as "simple ipc messages"

KDE has DCOP for simple IPC/RPC messages:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/dcop.html

In KDE, DCOP is dependent on Qt but independent DCOP bindings for C
are also available.  

An XmlRpc bridge is also available:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/xmlrpc.html

For intra-process widget embedding, KDE has KParts:

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kparts/

XParts is available for embedding non-KDE widgets or inter-process
widgets such as OOo, Mozilla, ViM...

> (This is actually, I believe a formal description of something found in
> the KDE libraries; I forget the name of the KDE classes.)

Cheers,
Navin.