dynamic data linking

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Dynamic Data Exchange
DDE
Dynamic Data Linking

   <language> (DDE, originally Dynamic Data Linking, DDL) A
   {Microsoft Windows} 3 {hotlink} {protocol} that allows
   {application programs} to communicate using a {client-server}
   model.  Whenever the server (or "publisher") modifies part of
   a document which is being shared via DDE, one or more clients
   ("subscribers") are informed and include the modification in
   the copy of the data on which they are working.

   (1997-06-05)