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33 lines
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The Inter-Language Unification system (ILU) is a multi-language object
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interface system. The object interfaces provided by ILU hide
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implementation distinctions between different languages, between
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different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can
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be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class
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libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces. It
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can also be used to implement distributed systems. It can also be
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used to define and document interfaces between the modules of
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non-distributed programs. ILU interfaces can be specified in either
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the OMG's IDL language, or in ILU's Interface Specification Language,
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which allows extensions to the CORBA spec. Programming languages
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supported in 2.0alpha12 are ANSI C, Common Lisp, Java, and Python;
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rough Guile Scheme and C++ support is also present. Additional ILU
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support for Perl is freely available from outside sources. Operating
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systems supported in 2.0alpha12 are all Windows platforms with Win32
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and WinSock, and all UNIX platforms with BSD sockets and minimal POSIX
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compliance. 2.0alpha12 supports interoperability with ONC RPC
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services, OMG CORBA services, World Wide Web HTTP services, and XNS
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Courier services. ``Plug-in'' extensibility is provided for RPC
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message formats, message transport schemes, URL schemes, accounting
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and authorization identity types, threading and event loop processing,
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and various other things. ILU is provided free for unrestricted use.
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FreeBSD port notes:
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- I enabled http protocol support by default.
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- Official ILU patches are not fetched from PARC, but I hold a proven
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snapshot at one of my own sites.
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- configure --bindir/--mandir doesn't work with current ILU version.
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I make symbolic links to ${PREFIX}/{bin,man}.
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- The FreeBSD port builds shareds libs for C libraries.
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- jdk-1.1 for FreeBSD works, but is disabled by default because the
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FreeBSD jdk is still in aout object format.
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