November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
It is an interesting exercise to compare the architecture of the .NET Framework with other distributed architectures that provide many of the same facilities. Both COM and CORBA, for example, address many of the same issues that the .NET Framework tackles. These architectures utilize an Interface Definition Language (IDL), which addresses many of the issues discussed earlier. But how does this interaction happen?
When developing a program with either COM or CORBA, a developer writes an IDL file that represents the interfaces provided or required by the server. The IDL provides the common type system and some built-in types, and it also permits the developer to define his or her own simple types ...
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