IDL interfaces

[David M. Beazley]

Jonathan S. Shapiro writes:
 > 
 > Several times over the last decade I have looked at various IDL languages,
 > starting with the Sun RPC language. It's an issue that seems to keep popping
 > up. Most recently, when Bryan Ford got into building what he called a COM
 > model for Fluke he and I had some discussions. These later prompted me to
 > look at David Beazley's SWIG system.

I suspect that SWIG is not the solution you're really after here.
This is because SWIG is more of a rapid application development and
prototyping tool than something that is designed to precisely define
interfaces between components (most users of SWIG are using it to
build interpreted interfaces to C/C++ applications so that they can
build GUIs and other types of flexible user interfaces).

Cheers,

Dave