I see. So Service Framework is for communicating between two or more Qt
applications (or at least processes), but NOT for a Qt application to find
and use system services. Is this correct?

-koichi

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Srikanth <[email protected]>wrote:

> Service Framework (SFW) is a generic inter-process communication mechanism
> targeting all Qt supported platforms. The basic problem is that each
> platform has its own IPC mechanism and with QtMobility Qt aims to simplify
> it such that a service provider runs as a service (mostly a separate
> process) and all clients access the service with a very simple discover
> mechanism. This discovery mechanism is as simple as finding a service via
> its name, like you want to access a maps engine by just using its name. You
> can use DBUS in linux or Client-Server mechanism in Symbian, but SFW is a
> cross platform solution and aims at its intended use cases.
>
> Thanks,
> Srikanth
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Koichi Mori <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a bit unclear what Service Framework API is for. Is this, for instance
>> on Linux, accessing platform services through dbus, or something else?
>>
>> I tried to get dubs interface from QML on Maemo5 but I never get it
>> work. My test code looks like below, but it always complains "WARNING: No
>> default service found for interface name:  "org.bluez.Manager"" and valid
>> property of course is false.
>>
>> Rectangle{
>> Component.onCompleted:{
>>  console.log(btManager.valid);
>>  }
>> Service {
>> id: btManager
>>  interfaceName: 'org.bluez.Manager'
>> }
>> }
>>
>> --
>> BR,
>> Koichi Mori
>>
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