dbus

D-Bus is an interprocess communication system via a message bus, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. For more information, see http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

Reference

What is D-Bus?

Get on the D-BUS , Robert Love, 2005-01-05

D-Bus Makes for Application Teamwork , Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz, 2009-02-16

D-Bus Makes for Application Teamwork

Introduces D-Bus to a general audience.

Tools

There are currently two projects for providing DBus bindings for Tcl:

tcldbus , by kostix

a low-level binding

dbus-tcl, by sbron

a low-level dbus binding

dbus-snit , by gaa

High-level Tcl bindings to dbus-tcl using Snit object system

dbus-intf by sbron

Additional module available in the sourceforge dbus-tcl project.

xanguli : xanguli ain't no gui library - leverages the tk toolkit from tcl via dbus. This allows the use of Tk from any programming language that has dbus bindings.