Harlequin Releases Its Harlequin Common Lisp ORB for Liquid Common Lisp.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--Harlequin today announced the availability of its Harlequin Common Lisp (language) Common Lisp - A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs. ORB for Liquid Common Lisp on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. This new product uses CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global technology to provide a complete distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. solution for Common Lisp. The package includes an integrated Interface Definition Language See IDL. Interface Definition Language - (IDL) 1. An OSF standard for defining RPC stubs. 2. Part of an effort by Project DOE at SunSoft, Inc. to integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris operating system. (IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data ) compiler for importing CORBA interfaces to Common Lisp programs, and a complete ORB, which lets users deploy CORBA solutions with support for version 2.0 of CORBA (and relevant portions of the 2.2 standard). "Harlequin's ORB lets developers write and deploy modern application components that interoperate with components written in other languages, including C++, Java, Cobol, and Harlequin Dylan," said John Hotchkiss, director of the Harlequin Software Tools business unit. "This complete enterprise solution lets developers choose the right tool for each part of a project and successfully integrate knowledge-based solutions such as Common Lisp into distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. . It is an ideal tool for organizations seeking to integrate applications with the Internet and with existing bodies of code." The ORB also contains the Portable Object Adapter (architecture) Portable Object Adapter - (POA) Part of the CORBA architecture. , the Internet InterOrb Protocol (IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. ), the Dynamic Invocation Interfaces, and the Dynamic Skeleton Interfaces. The ORB is included with other Harlequin Common Lisp products including the LispWorks Enterprise Edition on the Windows platform. It is also available as a layered product for LispWorks on UNIX platforms. Availability and Pricing Harlequin Common Lisp ORB is available immediately. To obtain further information or place an order, contact web@harlequin.com or call 1 (617) 374-2521 (US) or 44 (0) 1223 873883 (UK). Quantity and educational discounts are available. Additional product information and background material on the Harlequin Common Lisp programming language and product family are available on the Harlequin website (http://www.harlequin.com/devtools/lisp). About Harlequin Harlequin is a major provider of professional software development tools. Since 1986, the company has been dedicated to the development and delivery of highly creative and effective solutions to customers' problems--from telecommunications software to color management technology. Harlequin has grown into a global software company with world-class expertise in intelligence analysis, information management, software development and delivery tools, high-quality digital printing and publishing, and image sequence processing. The company has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Copyright (c) 1998 Harlequin Group plc. All rights reserved. Harlequin and LispWorks are registered trademarks of Harlequin Group plc. Dylan is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Windows and Windows NT are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other brand or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. All products and specifications are subject to change. Harlequin makes no warranty and accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information or particulars in this document. |
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