Pure CORBA

Built-In IDL Types

This section provides a detailed guide to most of the built-in types, describing the IDL syntax and language mappings for each one. The following categories of type are described here:

• Basic types—For example, types such as char, short, long, and so on.

• Constructed types—The types struct, union, and enum.

• Template types—The types sequence<...>, fixed<...>, string<...>, and wstring<...>.

• Complex declarator—Array types.

• Native type—Types declared using the native keyword.

Some built-in types are not included in this section because they are described at length elsewhere in this book. The omitted types are

• The any type—See Chapter 8, “The any Type.”

• User-defined interface types—See Chapter 5, “Object References.”

• User-defined value ...