Is there an equivalent to DBus on OSX?

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jldupont picture jldupont · Apr 27, 2010 · Viewed 15.2k times · Source

Is there an equivalent to Linux DBus on OSX? I mean, is there a "message bus" available by default on OSX?

Disclaimer: OSX newbie here.

Answer

MKroehnert picture MKroehnert · Feb 11, 2011

If you need to use DBus you can install it via Homebrew.
Homebrew is a package manager for OS X providing a lot of libraries which where mostly written with Linux as their primary target. The DBus package can be found here

However, this is not installed by default and if you intend to write Cocoa applications the way to go would be to use the (distributed) notification center as mipadi explained in his post (which you also accepted).

If you need a robust middleware for communication you can also have a look at IceTouch from ZeroC which is a Cocoa library for using the services and functionality offered by their Ice framework. The package contains IceStorm for example which is a publish/subscribe server or the IceGrid service which can be used to build large scale distributed systems

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