{"title":"Understanding any IDL lesson one: DCE and CORBA","authors":"A. Vogel, B. Gray, K. Duddy","doi":"10.1109/SDNE.1996.502454","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The co-existence of middleware platforms, eg. DCE and CORBA, creates a new problem of heterogeneity-the heterogeneity of middleware platforms. In this paper a partial approach to overcoming this heterogeneity is presented-the translation between different interface definition languages (IDL) and the comparison of interface specifications in different IDLs. In particular, a mapping between DCE IDL and OMG IDL and the corresponding translation tools are presented. Furthermore, various definitions of sub-typing of interface specifications are investigated for their suitability in comparing specifications in different IDLs.","PeriodicalId":112195,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of Third International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDNE.1996.502454","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The co-existence of middleware platforms, eg. DCE and CORBA, creates a new problem of heterogeneity-the heterogeneity of middleware platforms. In this paper a partial approach to overcoming this heterogeneity is presented-the translation between different interface definition languages (IDL) and the comparison of interface specifications in different IDLs. In particular, a mapping between DCE IDL and OMG IDL and the corresponding translation tools are presented. Furthermore, various definitions of sub-typing of interface specifications are investigated for their suitability in comparing specifications in different IDLs.