Appendix A: Common Lisp IDL Binding

Version 1.0 (The RFP for the IDL Common Lisp mapping was agreed by the ORBOS and PTC committees at the OMG meeting in Washington on 99/01/14.)

This chapter briefly reviews some concepts of IDL and defines the notion of a language mapping. A summary of the IDL/Common Lisp mapping is presented.

A.1 Introduction to IDL

A.2 How IDL is used

A.3 Mapping summary

A.4 Mapping in more detail

A.5 Mapping pseudo-objects to Lisp

A.6 The mapping of IDL into Common Lisp servants