6. OMG IDL to Erlang Mapping

6 OMG IDL to Erlang Mapping

6.1 OMG IDL to Erlang Mapping - Overview

The purpose of OMG IDL, Interface Definition Language, mapping is to act as translator between platforms and languages. An IDL specification is supposed to describe data types, object types etc.

CORBA is independent of the programming language used to construct clients or implementations. In order to use the ORB, it is necessary for programmers to know how to access ORB functionality from their programming languages. It translates different IDL constructs to a specific programming language. This chapter describes the mapping of OMG IDL constructs to the Erlang programming language.

6.2 OMG IDL Mapping Elements

A complete language mapping will allow the programmer to have access to all ORB functionality in a way that is convenient for a specified programming language.

All mapping must define the following eleme