Organization

The remainder of this document is separated into two parts; namely, foundations and supported language bindings. Part I is devoted to describing the SIDL and the Babel tools. It starts with a tutorial to gently introduce the reader to the development of glue code from both the implementation (or server) and user (or client) sides. The following chapter introduces SIDL and Babel basics. Finally, a chapter on advanced topics, such as linking options, is provided.

Part II describes the language bindings currently supported by Babel. At this point, most of the bindings are programming languages. In which case, most have both client- and server-side bindings. However, Babel also supports textual language backends. At this time, Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Scientific Interface Definition Language (SIDL) are the only to textual backends that are supported.

Appendices are included to provide more information on topics such as acronyms, the SIDL Grammar, and SIDL XML. In addition, sections are included that provide advice and tips on troubleshooting.





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