Editing Inter-process communication (section)

== Applications ==
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=== Remote procedure call interfaces ===
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* [[Java (programming language)|Java]]'s [[Java remote method invocation|Remote Method Invocation]] (RMI)
* [[ONC RPC]]
* [[XML-RPC]] or [[SOAP (protocol)|SOAP]]
* [[JSON-RPC]]
* {{anchor|RFC 3259}}Message Bus (Mbus) (specified in RFC 3259) (not to be confused with [[M-Bus (EN 13757)|M-Bus]])
* [[.NET Remoting]]
*[[gRPC]]

=== Platform communication stack ===
The following are messaging, and information systems that utilize IPC mechanisms but don't implement IPC themselves:

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* [[KDE]]'s [[Desktop communication protocol|Desktop Communications Protocol]] (DCOP){{snd}} deprecated by D-Bus
* [[D-Bus]]
* [[OpenWrt]] uses [https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/ubus ubus] micro bus architecture
* [[MCAPI]] Multicore Communications API
* [[SIMPL]] The Synchronous Interprocess Messaging Project for [[Linux]] (SIMPL)
* [[9P (protocol)|9P]] (Plan&nbsp;9 Filesystem Protocol)
* [[Distributed Computing Environment]] (DCE)
* [[Thrift (protocol)|Thrift]]
* [[ZeroC]]'s [[Internet Communications Engine]] (ICE)
* [[ØMQ]]
* [[Enduro/X]] Middleware
* [http://www.inspirel.com/yami4 YAMI4]
* [[Enlightenment_(software)]] E16 uses eesh as an IPC
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=== Operating system communication stack ===
The following are platform or programming language-specific APIs:
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* [[Apple Computer]]'s [[Apple events]], previously known as Interapplication Communications (IAC)
* [[ARexx]] ports
* [[ENEA AB|Enea's]] [[LINX (IPC)|LINX]] for Linux (open source) and various DSP and general-purpose processors under [[Operating System Embedded|OSE]]
* The [[Mach kernel]]'s Mach Ports
* [[Microsoft]]'s [[ActiveX]], [[Component Object Model]] (COM), [[Microsoft Transaction Server]] ([[COM+]]), [[Distributed Component Object Model]] (DCOM), [[Dynamic Data Exchange]] (DDE), [[Object Linking and Embedding]] (OLE), [[Anonymous pipe#Microsoft Windows|anonymous pipes]], [[Named pipe#Named pipes in Windows|named pipes]], [[Local Procedure Call]], [[MailSlot]]s, [[Message loop in Microsoft Windows|Message loop]], [[MSRPC]], [[.NET Remoting]], and [[Windows Communication Foundation]] (WCF)
* [[Novell]]'s [[IPX/SPX|SPX]]
* [[POSIX]] [[mmap]], [[message queue]]s, [[semaphore (programming)|semaphores]],<ref>"[http://www.tldp.org/pub/Linux/docs/ldp-archived/linuxfocus/English/Archives/lf-2003_01-0281.pdf Concurrent programming - communication between processes]"</ref> and [[Shared memory (interprocess communication)|shared memory]]
* [[RISC OS]]'s messages
* [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] [[Doors (computing)|Doors]]
* [[System V]]'s message queues, semaphores, and shared memory
* [[Transparent Inter-process Communication|Linux Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC)]]
* [[OpenBinder]] Open binder
* [[QNX]]'s PPS (Persistent Publish/Subscribe) service
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=== Distributed object models ===
The following are platform or programming language specific-APIs that use IPC, but do not themselves implement it:
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* [[PHP]]'s sessions
* Distributed Ruby
* [[Common Object Request Broker Architecture]] (CORBA)
* [[Electron (software framework)|Electron]]'s asynchronous IPC, shares [[JSON]] objects between a main and a renderer process<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-main#ipcmain|title = IpcMain &#124; Electron}}</ref>
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