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The wxMCA software package consists of processes that communicate with each other through messages exchanged through ZMQ as the protocol layer. To the user this transparent, and interprocess messages are human-readable JSON strings. Within the modules of any process communication occurs via dictionaries or class objects... The MCA Data Server server can work with clients written in any of the popular programming languages... The MCA Data Server (MDS) underpins all data acquisition. Its purpose is to provide a bridge between the detector on the USB or serial bus and multiple clients. It needs to always be active, with the exception when accessing the MCA devices directly from the MDS API (mca_api.py) In that case, the client has to write the DAQ software in Python, and the remainder of the discussion below does not apply, as there would be no data server present to listen to the other processes. When the MDS is used, it needs to be started first.