D-BUS

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D-BUS is a message bus system, rather like Appletalk, that allows applications to send messages to one another. The applications all run on the same CPU. If you look at the Python source code for Sugar you can see how D-BUS is being used.

Pages of Interest on D-BUS:

Activity DBus API Presence Service DBus API Including the Telepathy API

References

D-BUS website.