More Definitions
IDL: Interface Definition Language
- IDL is the means by which a particular object implementation tells its potential clients what operations are available and how they should be invoked.
Language mapping: recipe how to generate stubs&skeletons from IDL
- Clients see objects and ORB interfaces through the perspective of a language mapping, bringing the object right up to the programmer’s level.
Interface Repository: where all interfaces are stored network-wide
- provides information on interfaces at run-time
DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
- construct a remote method call at run-time without the use of stubs