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Interface description language - Wikipedia
Interface description language - Wikipedia

An interface description language or interface definition language (IDL), is a generic term for a language that lets a program or object written in one language communicate with another program written in an unknown language. IDLs describe an interface in a language-independent way, enabling communication between software components that do not share one language, for example, between those written in C++ and those written in Java. IDLs are commonly used in remote procedure call software. In these cases the machines at either end of the link may be using different operating systems and computer languages. IDLs offer a bridge between the two different systems. Software systems based on IDLs include Sun's ONC RPC, The Open Group's Distributed Computing Environment, IBM's System Object Model, the Object Management Group's CORBA (which implements OMG IDL, an IDL based on DCE/RPC) and Data Distribution Service, Mozilla's XPCOM, Microsoft's Microsoft RPC (which evolved into COM and DCOM), Facebook's Thrift and WSDL for Web services. AIDL: Java-based, for Android; supports local and remote procedure calls, can be accessed from native applications by calling through Java Native Interface (JNI) Apache Thrift: from Apache, originally developed by Facebook Avro IDL: for the Apache Avro system Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL, RFC 8610): A Notation for CBOR and JSON data structures CortoScript: Describe data and/or interfaces for systems that require Semantic interoperability Etch: Cisco's Etch Cross-platform Service Description Language Extensible Data Notation (EDN): Clojure data format, similar to JSON FlatBuffers: Serialization format from Google supporting zero-copy deserialization Franca IDL: the open-source Franca interface definition language FIDL: Interface description language for the Fuchsia Operating System designed for writing app components in C, C++, Dart, Go and Rust.

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