interface definition language

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interface definition language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Interface Definition Language
  
     (IDL) 1. An OSF standard for defining RPC stubs.
  
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     2. Part of an effort by Project DOE at SunSoft, Inc.  to
     integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris
     operating system.  IDL provides the standard interface
     between objects, and is the base mechanism for object
     interaction.
  
     The Object Management Group's CORBA 1.1 (Common Object
     Request Broker Architecture) specifies the interface between
     objects.  IDL (Interface Definition Language) is the base
     mechanism for object interaction.
  
     The SunSoft OMG IDL CFE (Compiler Front End) version 1.2
     provides a complete framework for building CORBA 1.1-compliant
     preprocessors for OMG IDL.  To use it you write a back-end.  A
     complete compiler of IDL would translate IDL into client
     side and server side routines for remote communication in
     the same manner as Sun's current RPCL compiler.  The IDL
     compiler front end allows integration of new back ends which
     can translate IDL to various programming languages.
  
     Several companies including Sunsoft are building back ends to
     the CFE which translate IDL into target languages,
     e.g. Pascal or C++, in the context of planned
     CORBA-compliant products.  IDL requires C++ 2.1.
  
     Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs.
  
     E-mail: <idl-cfe@sun.com>.
  
     (ftp://omg.org/pub/omg_idl_cfe.tar.Z),
     (ftp://omg.org/pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/).
  
     Telephone: Mache Creeger, SunSoft, Inc. +1 (415) 336 5884.
  
     (1993-05-04)