Make the most of your investment in existing code. Call programs and libraries written in other languages from IDL, or call IDL as a subroutine from other languages.

IDL is both an ActiveX control and an ActiveX container. Using ActiveX technology, you can embed IDL graphics into VB, VC++ and other Windows applications and embed components such as spreadsheets into your IDL applications on Windows. You can also access Java objects from within your IDL code to take advantage of special Java I/O, networking, and third party functionality.

Using ION (IDL On the Net), you can share your data and interactive applications on the Web or power a client/server Java application with IDL's analysis and graphics capabilities.