In software development

Software development

Software development is the development of a software product...

, Java Interface Definition Language, or Java IDL, is an implementation of the CORBA

Çorba

Chorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...

 specification and enables interoperability and connectivity with heterogeneous objects

Object (computer science)

In computer science, an object is any entity that can be manipulated by the commands of a programming language, such as a value, variable, function, or data structure...

. It is basically an Object Request Broker

Object request broker

In distributed computing, an object request broker is a piece of middleware software that allows programmers to make program calls from one computer to another via a network...

 provided with JDK

Java Development Kit

The Java Development Kit is an Oracle Corporation product aimed at Java developers. Since the introduction of Java, it has been by far the most widely used Java SDK. On 17 November 2006, Sun announced that it would be released under the GNU General Public License , thus making it free software...

. The Java IDL enables distributed Web applications to transparently invoke operations on remote network services using the industry standards IDL

Interface description language

An interface description language , or IDL for short, is a specification language used to describe a software component's interface...

 and IIOP from OMG

Object Management Group

Object Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...

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External links

• Sun Developer Network: Core Java: Java IDL