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ConnMan: New Connection Manager

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:19
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Author(s): 
Marcel Holtmann

The new Connection Manager for Linux is an attempt to establish a more simple infrastructure for creating networking connections. Main goal is to make the new solution ready for an easy cross-desktop integration. The whole design is modeled to be slim and flexible. This is achieved via a fully plugin and policy based architecture.

The D-Bus based API is service driven and allows for a really simple integration into various application. This gives seamless support for various new technologies like Bluetooth, WiMAX, Ultra-Wideband and 3G.

The Moblin 2.0 distribution picked Connection Manager as one of the core components of their software stack.

Author bio: 
Affiliation: Intel Marcel Holtmann works for the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. He maintains the BlueZ project and created ConnMan.
Second Author bio: 
Joshua Lock. Programmer. Geek. Wannabe Hero. Joshua works for Intel in the Open source Technology Centre (OTC), where he is currently helping make Moblin rock writing applications in Gtk+. In his less than copious spare time, when he's not geeking around with computers, he geeks around with other things: video gaming, reading (fiction and fact) and watching the NBA and NFL. Heck, sometimes he even goes outside (gasp); throws a ball, rides a bike, drinks beer and interacts with people in the big blue room.