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/*!
    \page ipc.html
    \title Inter-Process Communication in Qt
    \ingroup architecture
    \brief Inter-Process communication in Qt applications.

    Qt provides several ways to implement Inter-Process Communication
    (IPC) in Qt applications.

    \list

    \o \l{QtDBus}{D-Bus} The \l{QtDBus} module is a Unix-only library
    you can use to implement IPC using the D-Bus protocol. It extends
    Qt's \l{signalsandslots.html} {Signals and Slots} mechanism to the
    IPC level, allowing a signal emitted by one process to be
    connected to a slot in another process. This \l {Introduction to
    D-Bus} page has detailed information on how to use the \l{QtDBus}
    module.

    \o \l{QtNetwork}{TCP/IP} The cross-platform \l{QtNetwork} module
    provides classes that make network programming portable and
    easy. It offers high-level classes (e.g. QHttp, QFtp) that
    implement specific application-level protocols, and lower-level
    classes (e.g. QTcpSocket, QTcpServer, QSslSocket) for implementing
    protocols.

    \o \l{QSharedMemory}{Shared Memory} The cross-platfrom shared
    memory class (QSharedMemory) provides access to the operating
    system's shared memory implementation. It allows safe access to
    shared memory segments by multiple threads and processes.

    \o \l{QCopChannel}{Qt COmmunications Protocol (QCOP)} The
    QCopChannel class implements a protocol for transferring messages
    between client processes across named channels. QCopChannel is
    only available in \l {Qt for Embedded Linux}. Like the \l{QtDBus}
    module, QCOP extends Qt's \l{signalsandslots.html} {Signals and
    Slots} mechanism to the IPC level, allowing a signal emitted by
    one process to be connected to a slot in another process, but
    unlike QtDBus, QCOP does not depend on a 3rd party library.

    \endlist

*/

