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Babel consists of a set of tools that are intended to be used for facilitating
language interoperability in the scientific computing community. Using
interfaces for libraries or components specified in Scientific Interface
Definition Language (SIDL) files, Babel can generate corresponding XML
representations as well as the source code for the corresponding stubs,
intermediate object representations, and implementation skeletons. The
generated source code then becomes the foundation for the glue code that is
used for language interoperability between callers of libraries and components.
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In addition to providing generated code that automatically handles mapping
fundamental data type parameters associated with calls between different
languages, Babel has built-in support for complex numbers and multi-
dimensional arrays. Additional benefits include object reference counting to
facilitate memory management.
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Finally, Babel's primary goal is to facilitate the development of language
interoperable libraries and components. Hence, support for reverse engineering
is not provided. Given that Babel has been developed by a research team,
there are also limitations associated with shared library and programming
language-specific compiler interoperability support that have been looked
into but probably will not be addressed in the foreseeable future. Regardless,
Babel has proven to be useful to its stakeholders to the point that it is
becoming an integral part of the Common Component Architecture (CCA). Refer
to papers and presentations on our web site for more information.
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