Language Interop Examples

• IBM’s System Application Architecture

  • Common primitive types only
  • Procedure interoperability

• IBM’s System Object Model

  • Common type system through CORBA-like IDL
  • SOM runtime controlled type layout & manip

• Microsoft’s COM

  • Common type system through C++ vtable layout
  • Specification, not a runtime

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