ILU Reference Manual
We might forbid two consecutive hyphens or add other restrictions.
We may change this.
Same integer in all protocols? Yep -- for now.
OMG IDL is defined in:
The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification,
OMG Document Number 91.12.1, Revision 1.1
The program's front end is derived from the
Interface Definition Language Compiler Front End
from SunSoft, Inc. See the file `src/stubbers/idl2isl/Sun-parser/docs/COPYRIGHT'
in the ILU distribution.
The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification,
revision 2.0, Draft July 1995
See section The ILU Common Lisp Portable DEFSYSTEM Module,
for a description of the PDEFSYS package.
This causes
problems; the ISL names "FooBar" and "foo-bar" map to the same Common Lisp name. Something will have to change.
The simple binding protocol is experimental
in release 1.8 of ILU, and may change without warning in later
releases.
RPC: Remote Procedure
Call Protocol Specification, Version 2; R. Srinivasan. IETF RFC 1831, August 1995.
XDR: External Data Representation Standard; R. Srinivasan. IETF RFC 1832, August 1995.
Courier: The Remote
Procedure Call Protocol; Xerox Corporation, XNSS 038112, 1981
Query: can requests be larger than the
UDP packet size? [No] How then are they segmented? [They're not; replies aren't either] Note: This should
probably be replaced by a reliable UDP protocol, in which each message
is acknowledged by the receiver. This would allow use of asynchronous
methods over UDP. Of course, ONC RPC would not cooperate.
The current ILU GSS implementation only allows one name per GSS identity. This restriction will be lifted in the future.
Currently, it does this by marshalling
one language's representation into a data buffer, as if to transmit it to
another address space, then hands this buffer to the other language's ILU support,
which unmarshalls it into representations appropriate for that language. We plan
to optimize this process in the future.