References for IDL and IDL related concepts

Definition of interface

• What is an interface? (The Java Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Object-Oriented Programming Concepts)

OMG, CORBA and IDL

• OMG
• OMG CORBA
• History of CORBA
• OMG CORBA 3 (by Chapter)
  • OMG IDL
  • OMG IDL Syntax and Semantics
  • OMG IDL Language Mappings
    • OMG IDL to ADA Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to C Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to C++ Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to Cobol Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to CORBA Scripting Language Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to Java Language Mapping
    • Java to OMG IDL Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to Lisp Language Mapping
    • MOF 2.0 to OMG IDL Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to PL/1 Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to Python Language Mapping
    • OMG IDL to SmallTalk
    • OMG IDL to XML (related to DOM W3C work around IDL interfaces for DOM)
    • OMG IDL to WSDL Language Mapping (as part of the CORBA WSDL/SOAP Interworking)

MIDL

• Microsoft Interface Definition Language