Page History

...

Two applications connected to a same instance of IARM-Bus are able to exchange events or RPC calls. On a typical system, only one instance of IARM-Bus instance is needed. If desired, it is possible to have multiple IARM-Bus instances. However, applications connected to different buses will not be able to communicate with each other.

 Image Removed

Bus Daemon

Each Bus Instance is managed by a single Bus Daemon Process. The Bus Daemon oversees the activities on the bus and manage common resources competed by all connected applications. Applications requesting a shared resource must firstly acquire Ownership from the Bus Daemon. Once it is done with the resource, it must release the ownership back to Bus Daemon so that other applications can use the resource. The IARM Bus Daemon offers standard APIs to request and release ownership of a resource. In Essence, a Bus Daemon itself is a regular applications connected to the IARM-Bus with special privileges. It is the only entity that has knowledge of all applications connected to the bus, and has the authority of granting or denying resources.

...