NSPortCoder

Creates and returns a new NSPortCoder object.

Initializes and returns an NSPortCoder object.

Returns the NSConnection object that uses the receiver.

Encodes a given port so it can be properly reconstituted in the receiving process or thread.

Decodes and returns an NSPort object that was previously encoded with any of the general encode...Object: messages.

Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the receiver is encoding an object by copying it.

Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the receiver is encoding an object by reference.

Processes and acts upon the distributed object message with which the receiver was initialized.

An interface for handling incoming Mach messages.

An interface for interacting with low-level, interprocess connections.

An object that manages the communication between objects in different threads or between a thread and a process running on a local or remote system.

A proxy for objects in other applications or threads.

An object used by the distributed objects system to help handle invocations between different processes.

A port name server that takes and returns Mach port objects.

A port that can be used as an endpoint for distributed object connections (or raw messaging).

A port that can be used as an endpoint for distributed object connections (or raw messaging).

A server takes and returns message ports.

An interface for handling incoming messages.

A low-level, operating system-independent type for inter-application (and inter-thread) messages.

An object-oriented interface to the port registration service used by the distributed objects system.

An object that restricts the messages that can be sent to another object (referred to as the checker’s delegate).

A port name server that takes and returns socket ports.