way to implement IPC

Question

what is the preferred way to implement IPC over windows ?

i know of several like : named pipe, shared memory, semaphors ? , maybe COM (though i\'m not sure how)...<

Answer 1

Take a look at boost::interprocess.

Shared memory is probably the fastest in general, but somewhat error-prone and limited to local processes.

COM is fully versioned and automatically supports remote IPC, but obviously it's platform-specific.

For a large-scale application you might want to consider something like ActiveMQ or OpenMQ.