Understanding any IDL lesson one: DCE and CORBA

Author

Vogel, Andreas ; Gray, Brett ; Duddy, Keith

Author_Institution

Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia

fYear

1996

Firstpage

114

Lastpage

121

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

Keywords

distributed processing; formal specification; object-oriented methods; software portability; specification languages; CORBA; Common Object Request Broker Architecture; DCE; DCE IDL; Distributed Computing Environment; IDL; OMG IDL; interface definition languages; interface specification subtyping; interface specifications; middleware heterogeneity; middleware platforms; translation tools; Australia; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Cyclic redundancy check; Distributed computing; Middleware; Operating systems; Prototypes; Runtime environment; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, 1996., Proceedings of Third International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7499-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SDNE.1996.502454

Filename

502454