Interface description language

An interface description language or interface definition language, is a specification language used to describe a software component's application programming interface. IDLs describe an interface in a language-independent way, enabling communication between software components that do not share one language, for example, between those written in C++ and those written in Java.
IDLs are commonly used in remote procedure call software. In these cases the machines at either end of the link may be using different operating systems and computer languages. IDLs offer a bridge between the two different systems.
Software systems based on IDLs include Sun's ONC RPC, The Open Group's Distributed Computing Environment, IBM's System Object Model, the Object Management Group's CORBA and Data Distribution Service, Mozilla's XPCOM, Microsoft's Microsoft RPC, Facebook's Thrift and WSDL for Web services.

Examples

AIDL: Java-based, for Android; supports local and remote procedure calls, can be accessed from native applications by calling through Java Native Interface
Apache Thrift: from Apache, originally developed by Facebook
Avro IDL: for the Apache Avro system
CortoScript: Describe data and/or interfaces for systems that require Semantic interoperability
Etch: Cisco's Etch Cross-platform Service Description Language
Extensible Data Notation : Clojure data format, similar to JSON
FlatBuffers: Serialization format from Google supporting zero-copy deserialization
Franca IDL: the open-source Franca interface definition language
IDL specification language: the original Interface Description Language
JSON Web-Service Protocol
Microsoft Interface Definition Language : the Microsoft extension of OMG IDL to add support for Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model
OMG IDL: standardized by Object Management Group, used in CORBA and DDS, also selected by the W3C for exposing the DOM of XML, HTML, and CSS documents
OpenAPI Specification: a standard for REST interfaces, used by Swagger and other technologies.
Open Service Interface Definitions
Protocol Buffers: Google's IDL
RESTful Service Description Language
Specification Language for Internet Communications Engine
Universal Network Objects: OpenOffice.org's component model
Web Application Description Language
Web IDL: can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers
Web Services Description Language
XCB: X protocol description language for X Window System
Cross Platform Interface Description Language : Mozilla's way to specify XPCOM interfaces

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