Introductionary article on D-Bus; if regarded helpful, then add it to dbus.freedesktop.org ?

[rony]

Hi there,

as no one objected, I updated <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus> accordingly. If not
appropriate, then please let me know.

Regards,

---rony


On 21.12.2011 11:51, rony wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> as some of you may be aware I wrote a D-Bus language binding for ooRexx (http://www.ooRexx.org)
> this past summer. At this year's International Rexx Symposium I presented this work at the
> beginning of December.
>
> In order for Rexx coders to become acquainted with D-Bus and the binding I wrote an article about
> the D-Bus concepts and the ooRexx language binding, which went with my presentation and now has
> become stable, i.e. this article won't change.
>
> As the first part of the article introduces the interested reader to the D-Bus concepts it may
> help interested/potential D-Bus programmers (using any programming language) to get acquainted
> with them. The idea here is, the easier the D-Bus concepts get communicated, the easier they can
> get understood, the more likely it becomes that D-Bus gets excercised by "regular" (i.e.
> "non-system") programmers.
>
> The article can be found at <http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/rexx/orx22/> or also at the (temporary)
> beta-site of the language binding at <http://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/tmp/dbus/onthefly/>.
>
> If you agree, I would suggest to make that introductionary article available via the D-Bus
> homepage (<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus>), section "Articles from around the web,
> including some tutorials".
>
> Regards,
>
> ---rony
>
> P.S.: The ooRexx language bindings for D-Bus are still in beta, awaiting the conclusion of a
> student's assignment, which also includes systematic (further) testing of the language binding.
>
> P.P.S.: One thing that may be interesting to programmers using other programming languages with
> D-Bus is a little utility coming with the ooRexx bindings that creates HTML-rendered
> documentations of available D-Bus services and their interfaces. Under
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus> you will find three example renderings,
> session_Notifications_2011-08-25T14_09_32-324083.html
> <http://wi.wu.ac.at:8002/rgf/tmp/dbus/onthefly/session%5fNotifications%5f2011%2d08%2d25T14%5f09%5f32%2d324083%2ehtml>
> (service org.freedesktop.Notifications under Ubuntu), session_._2011-08-29T23_15_55-230888.html
> <http://wi.wu.ac.at:8002/rgf/tmp/dbus/onthefly/session%5f%2e%5f2011%2d08%2d29T23%5f15%5f55%2d230888%2ehtml>
> (all published session services from Ubuntu), and system_._2011-08-29T23_19_15-115012.html
> <http://wi.wu.ac.at:8002/rgf/tmp/dbus/onthefly/system%5f%2e%5f2011%2d08%2d29T23%5f19%5f15%2d115012%2ehtml>
> (all published system services from Ubuntu; user needs to get rights to interact with these
> services, before becoming able to interact with them).

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