Chapter 7. Interapplication Communication
Several of Cocoa's classes provide support for
interapplication and interthread
communication. The Foundation class
NSPipe provides an interface to Unix pipes, a
long-time staple of Unix interprocess communication (IPC). The
Foundation framework also implements a distributed notification
system whereby notifications (discussed in Chapter 2) are sent between applications. The
NSDistributedNotificationCenter class registers
observers with the distributed notification system.
Finally, Cocoa provides a means for high-level IPC, known as
distributed objects, that permits object sharing across process
boundaries, even on different computers. Figure 7-1
shows the classes involved in interprocess communication.
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