Windows Messaging


Windows Messaging

(messaging)Microsoft's Internet electronic mailapplication, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.

windows messaging

(messaging)An inter-process communication facility usuallyprovided by vendors of graphical user interfaces forconcurrent operating systems, such as Microsoft, The X Consortium and Apple.

The system software translates hardware interrupts fromvarious input devices into messages according to the currentinput context (e.g. the active window of the frontmostapplication). Each message is a short piece of information.A message's format depends on its type, which is usuallyencoded in its first field. The message is sent to theclient application using some communication protocol(e.g. shared memory, internal socket, network socket).The client application dispatches the message and performs anyactions required. The messages can also be sent by clientapplications. This provides convenient and flexibleinter-process communication.