Hi, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Straub, Michael CTR NAVAIR 2035 , 1 , 118 <michael.straub at navy.mil> wrote: > My limited understanding is that D-bus was a local to machine only component framework. David has a good answer. I'd add that "component framework" may indicate a misunderstanding. See http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-faq.html#components Havoc