Interface Definition Language (IDL)
IDL is an extensive subject. The Delphi 6 Enterprise CD-ROM contains a PDF document (Delphi6\Doc\CORBA) that describes the Object Pascal mapping for IDL. This document contains all the details about each data type, modules, inheritance, and user-defined types. This section highlights some of the notable aspects of IDL; however, to gain more insight into the details, refer to the mapping document.
There are a few rules that an IDL file must follow. The first is that an IDL file must have .idl as the file extension. This can be upper- or lowercase. Other file extensions won't be accepted.
The contents of an IDL file are relatively free flowing but do follow a certain structure. The interface descriptions are ...
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