Inter Process Communication

ix provides functionality for inter process communication (IPC). IPC is based on TCP/IP sockets. A sender of a message is called client (Client applikation context) since the sender initiates the connection. The receiver is called server (Server application context , Net Packets). There are two kinds of IPC: communication over net packets and data stream. There are a lot of functionality to support packet based IPC and there are various ways to set up and send the net packet (Net Packets).

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