Interoperability Glossary

Browse 5 interoperability terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

5 Interoperability Terms

C Interop
The ability of a programming language to call C functions and use C data types directly — often via a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) — enabling reuse of the...
HL7
Health Level Seven — a set of international standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data between software applications. HL7 v2 uses...
Open Standard
A technical standard developed and published in a way that allows broad implementation without proprietary lock-in or discriminatory access. Open standards are...
PSR
PHP Standard Recommendation — a set of coding standards and interfaces published by the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG). PSR-4 defines autoloading, PSR-7...
XML
Extensible Markup Language — a text-based, self-describing data format that uses nested opening and closing tags to represent hierarchical data. Once the...

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