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Not to be confused with IDL (programming language).

An interface description language (or alternately, interface definition language), or IDL for short, is a specification language used to describe a software component's interface. IDLs describe an interface in a language-neutral way, enabling communication between software components that do not share a language – for example, between components written in C++ and components written in Java.

IDLs are commonly used in remote procedure call software. In these cases the machines at either end of the "link" may be using different operating systems and computer languages. IDLs offer a bridge between the two different systems.

Software systems based on IDLs include Sun's ONC RPC, The Open Group's Distributed Computing Environment, IBM's System Object Model, the Object Management Group's CORBA, Facebook's Thrift and WSDL for Web services.

Interface description languages

IDL specification language, the original Interface Description Language.
AIDL Android Interface Definition Language IDL for Google's Android mobile device platform
Microsoft Interface Definition Language
Open Service Interface Definitions
Platform-Independent Component Modeling Language
WSDL, the Web Services Description Language.
Universal Network Objects, OpenOffice.org's component model
SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
XPIDL - Mozilla's Cross-Platform IDL
Etch (protocol) - Cisco's Etch Cross-platform Service Description Language
Protocol Buffers - Google's IDL
Slice - The Specification Language for ICE.

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Interface Definition Language	Academic & Science->Electronics Computing->Software
Interface definition file (Visual C)	Computing->File Extensions
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Interface description language

Interface description languages

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