Is there any opensource high-performance IPC-like msg bus library in c++?

Question

In my current project, I have a slightly distributed architecture, i.e., several executables collaborate with each other to get things done. To make things easier, i hope i could have a reliable 'backbone' message bus: when an executable hooks up to the msg bus, it can receive callback when new msg arrives. Similarly, it can publish new message to the bus.

I know some companies provide off-the-shelf solutions like this, however, is there any free ones in the OSS?

Answer 1

If you don't need Windows support, and your processes aren't spread over different computers, I'd definately give D-Bus a look.

It's written in C and features (according to the web page) bindings for "Qt, GLib, Java, C#, Python, etc.)".

The list of projects using D-Bus is quite impressive, too.