TY - GEN
T1 - Why IDLs are not ideal
AU - Kaplan, Alan
AU - Ridgway, John
AU - Wileden, Jack C.
PY - 1998/4/16
Y1 - 1998/4/16
N2 - The dominant approach to addressing heterogeneity, interoperability and legacy software components at present is based on the use of interface description languages (IDLs) such as the OMG/CORBA IDL. We believe that this approach has serious drawbacks. In this paper we outline our objections to the IDL-based approach, then describe ongoing research directed toward producing a superior alternative, which we refer to as the polylingual systems approach. We illustrate both our objections to the IDL-based approach and also our new polylingual systems approach with examples based on the IWSSD common case study.
AB - The dominant approach to addressing heterogeneity, interoperability and legacy software components at present is based on the use of interface description languages (IDLs) such as the OMG/CORBA IDL. We believe that this approach has serious drawbacks. In this paper we outline our objections to the IDL-based approach, then describe ongoing research directed toward producing a superior alternative, which we refer to as the polylingual systems approach. We illustrate both our objections to the IDL-based approach and also our new polylingual systems approach with examples based on the IWSSD common case study.
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U2 - 10.1109/iwssd.1998.667913
DO - 10.1109/iwssd.1998.667913
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:31344438391
T3 - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, IWSSD 1998
SP - 2
EP - 7
BT - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, IWSSD 1998
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 9th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, IWSSD 1998
Y2 - 16 April 1998 through 18 April 1998
ER -