Inter Process Communication Overview

Provides idioms and frameworks by which processes can pass requests and data to other running processes.

The APIs in this group are fundamental to Symbian OS programming. This is particularly so of the high-level classes in the Asynchronous Services API, which are provide the underlying structure of most Symbian OS applications.

Functionality is provided by a number of APIs. Use them as follows:

Asynchronous Services Overview

Provides the idioms by which one process in Symbian OS can request services from another.

Client/Server Overview

Provides the Symbian OS client/server framework, by which a program can offer services to multiple other programs.

Notification Services Overview

Provides miscellaneous low-level services for notifying programs of environment changes and of thread deaths, and for putting simple messages on screen.

Environment Change Notifier Overview

Package Buffers Overview

Reference Counting Objects Overview

System Static Functions Overview

Threads And Processes Overview