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@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -An IDL is an interface definition language. The most well-known is -CORBA. An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stubs -that hide the transport details. In the case of [[microkernel/mach/MIG]], this -hides the marshalling and unmarshalling of parameters according -to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s semantics. +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="IDL"]] + +An *IDL* is an *interface definition language* ([[!wikipedia +Interface_description_language desc="Wikipedia article"]]). A well-known one +is CORBA. These are [[DSL]]s. + +An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stub code that hides the +transport details, and by this implements a [[RPC]] system. + +In the case of [[Mach's MIG|microkernel/mach/mig]], this hides the marshalling +and unmarshalling of procedures' parameters to and from +[[microkernel/mach/message]] format, according to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s +semantics, and invoking the respective [[microkernel/mach/port]] operations. |