Mockingbird is a prototype tool for developing interlanguage and
distributed applications. It compiles stubs from pairs of interface
declarations, allowing existing data types to be reused on both sides
of every interface. Other multilanguage stub compilers impose data
types on the application, complicating development. Mockingbird
supports C/C++, Java, and CORBA IDL, and can be extended to other
languages. Its stubs convert types whose structural equivalence would
be missed by other tools, because it interacts with the programmer to
refine the original declarations. We show that this kind of tool
improves programming productivity, and describe, in detail,
Mockingbird's design and implementation.
By: Joshua Auerbach, Charles Barton, Mark Chu-Carroll, Mukund Raghavachari
Published in: RC21309 in 1998
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