At 10:33 AM 7/2/98 +0200, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote:
I'm not sure what your semantics are for the TLA's.
"IDL" means
"Interface Definition Language" and is the generic term for languages
that describe RPC interfaces. ILU has its own IDL, so does CORBA, so
does Sun RPC. The terminology is confusing because "IDL" is often
used to specifically denote CORBA's IDL.
IDL defines static interfaces which in CORBA means passing some IDL code
through a compiler which type checks it and turns it into the language
binding of your choice.
What's DII?
DII is the Dynamic Invocation Interface which allows you to discover and
execute at run-time methods on an object.
I would have thought the latter would be more appropriate to a lisp
environment.
andy
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