Working with IDL

PowerDesigner supports modeling in the Interface Definition Language.

IDL stands for Interface Definition Language. It was defined for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) to enable client/server object interaction.

The IDL language is independent from the platform you are working on. In this manual, we refer to version 2.4 of the IDL-CORBA specification, and we support the concepts defined in the UML Profile for CORBA Specification from the Object Management Group (OMG).

• IDL Objects
  PowerDesigner supports modeling for all IDL objects.
• Generating for IDL
  IDL generation produces files with the .idl extension. One IDL file is generated per package.
• Reverse Engineering IDL Files
  You can reverse engineer IDL files to create classes and interfaces with their attributes and operations in a class diagram.