IDL programming language

[Andyr]

Has anyone come across this in the past, and if so, are there any particularly good books or websites for familiarising oneself with it?

[igi]

It depends on what you mean by 'IDL' - it's the standard abbreviation for Interface Definition Language (as used by CORBA and COM etc) - is this what you mean?

[Kulyok]

(groan) Man, how I hated that subject at the old Uni...

 

http://synthesis.ipi.ac.ru/synthesis/student/dot/literature - and yeah, these are good books; the one I did peruse, anyway.

 

For web resources in English... damned if I know. Try Sun Microsystems, we've been studying using their documentation for a while.

[lennon]

It depends on what you mean by 'IDL' - it's the standard abbreviation for Interface Definition Language (as used by CORBA and COM etc) - is this what you mean?

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Didn't think COM used an IDL, but if you Google "Interface Definition Language", you'll find both the OMG and W3 consortium's sites.

 

Is this for next year's course or are you mugging up for an interview?

 

I'd suggest that CORBA/IDL is loosing ground to the WUST stack, web services model.

[igi]

Didn't think COM used an IDL, but if you Google "Interface Definition Language", you'll find both the OMG and W3 consortium's sites.

 

COM interfaces are written in MIDL (I'll give you 1 guess what the M stands for).

[Andyr]

I need to learn it to use it during my PhD.

 

I am not yet exactly sure what it is, although I know it is used for processing of large amounts of data (which is what I will be doing some of the time).