MyLife Open Source Software: ATD

ATD stands for Adaptable Type Definitions. It is a syntax for defining cross-language data types.

The main novelty is that this single aspect of data exchange is treated independently from the problems of transport protocols and serialization format. The language is properly documented and supports sum types, parametrized types and inheritance. Any specific programming language or data format can be accomodated using semi-structured annotations that complete the canonical type definitions.

The ATD language and its OCaml library were designed and implemented at MyLife by Martin Jambon. We distribute the source code under the terms of a BSD license.