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SYMBIAN OS V9.4

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Inter Process Communication Overview

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Purpose

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

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Architectural relationships

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.

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Description

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.

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See also

Environment Change Notifier Overview

Package Buffers Overview

Reference Counting Objects Overview

System Static Functions Overview

Threads And Processes Overview