Oracle8i Enterprise JavaBeans and CORBA Developer's Guide
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Abbreviations and Acronyms

This appendix lists some of the most common acronyms that you will find in the areas of networks, distributed object development, and Java. In cases where an acronym refers to a product or a concept that is associated with a specific group, company or product, the group, company, or product is indicated in brackets following the acronym expansion. For example: CORBA ... [OMG].

This acronym list is intended as a helpful guide only. There are no guarantees that it is complete or even completely accurate.

3GL  

third generation language  

4GL  

fourth generation language  

ACID  

atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability  

ACL  

access control list  

ADT  

abstract datatype  

AFC  

application foundation classes [Microsoft]  

ANSI  

American National Standards Institute  

API  

application program interface  

AQ  

advanced queuing [Oracle8]  

ASCII  

American standard code for information interchange  

AWT  

abstract windowing toolkit [Java]  

BDK  

beans developer kit [Java]  

BLOB  

binary large object  

BOA  

basic object adapter [CORBA]  

BSD  

Berkeley system distribution [UNIX]  

C/S  

client/server  

CGI  

common gateway interface  

CICS  

customer information control system [IBM]  

CLI  

call level interface [SAG]  

CLOB  

character large object  

COM  

common object model [Microsoft]  

CORBA  

common object request broker architecture [OMG]  

DB  

database  

DBA  

database administrator, database administration  

DBMS  

database management system  

DCE  

distributed computing environment [OSF]  

DCOM  

distributed common object model [Microsoft]  

DDCF  

distributed document component facility  

DDE  

dynamic data exchange [Microsoft]  

DDL  

data definition language [SQL]  

DLL  

dynamic link library [Microsoft]  

DLM  

distributed lock manager [Oracle8]  

DML  

data manipulation language [SQL]  

DOS  

disk operating system  

DSOM  

distributed system object model [IBM]  

DSS  

decision support system  

DTP  

distributed transaction processing  

EBCDIC  

extended binary-coded decimal interchange code [IBM]  

EJB  

Enterprise JavaBean  

ERP  

enterprise resource planning  

ESIOP  

environment-specific inter-orb protocol  

FTP  

file transfer protocol  

GB  

gigabyte  

GIF  

graphics interchange format  

GIOP  

general inter-orb protocol  

GUI  

graphical user interface  

GUID  

globally-unique identifier  

HTML  

hypertext markup language  

HTTP  

hypertext transfer protocol  

IDE  

integrated development environment, interactive development environment  

IDL  

interface definition language  

IEEE  

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers  

IIOP  

internet inter-ORB protocol  

IP  

internet protocol  

IPC  

interprocess communication  

IS  

information services  

ISAM  

indexed sequential access method  

ISO  

international standards organization (translation)  

ISP  

internet service provider  

ISQL  

interactive SQL [Interbase]  

ISV  

independent software vendor  

IT  

information technology  

JAR  

Java archive (on analogy with tar, q.v.)  

JCK  

Java compatibility kit [Sun]  

JDBC  

"Java database connectivity"  

JDK  

Java developer kit  

JFC  

Java foundation classes  

JIT  

just in time  

JNDI  

Java naming and directory interface  

JNI  

Java native interface  

JOB  

Java Objects for Business [Sun]  

JPEG  

joint photographic experts group  

JSP  

Java server pages [Sun]  

JTA  

Java transaction API  

JTS  

Java transaction service  

KB  

kilobyte  

LAN  

local area network  

LDAP  

lightweight directory access protocol  

LDIF  

LDPA data interchange format  

LOB  

large object  

MB  

megabyte  

MIS  

management information services  

MOM  

message-oriented middleware  

MPEG  

motion picture experts group  

NCLOB  

national character large object  

NIC  

network information center [internet]  

NNTP  

net news transfer protocol  

NSP  

network service provider  

NT  

New Technology [Microsoft]  

OCI  

Oracle call interface  

OCX  

OLE common control [Microsoft]  

ODBC  

open database connectivity [Microsoft]  

ODBMS  

object database management system  

ODL  

object definition language [Microsoft]  

ODMG  

Object Database Management Group  

OEM  

original equipment manufacturer  

OID  

object identifier  

OLE  

object linking and embedding  

OLTP  

on line transaction processing  

OMA  

object management architecture [OMG]  

OMG  

Object Management Group  

OO  

object-oriented, object orientation  

OODBMS  

object-oriented database management system  

OQL  

object query language  

ORB  

object request broker  

ORDBMS  

object relational database management system  

OS  

operating system  

OSF  

Open System Foundation  

OSI  

open systems interconnect  

OSQL  

object SQL  

OTM  

object transaction monitor  

OTS  

object transaction service  

OWS  

Oracle Web Server  

PB  

petabyte  

PDF  

portable document format [Adobe]  

PGP  

pretty good privacy  

PL/SQL  

procedural language/SQL [Oracle]  

POA  

portable object adapter [CORBA]  

RAM  

random access memory  

RAS  

remote access service [Microsoft NT]  

RCS  

revision control system  

RDBMS  

relational database management system  

RFC  

request for comments  

RFP  

request for proposal  

RMI  

remote method invocation [Sun]  

ROM  

read only memory  

RPC  

remote procedure call  

RTF  

rich text file  

SAG  

SQL Access Group  

SCSI  

small computer system interface  

SDK  

software developer kit  

SET  

secure electronic transaction  

SGML  

standard generalized markup language  

SID  

system identifier [Oracle]  

SLAPD  

standalone LDAP daemon  

SMP  

symmetric multiprocessing  

SMTP  

simple mail transfer protocol  

SPI  

service provider interface  

SQL  

structured query language  

SQLJ  

SQL for Java  

SRAM  

static (or synchronous) random access memory  

SSL  

secure socket layer  

TB  

terabyte  

TCPS  

TCP for SSL  

TCP/IP  

transmission control protocol/internet protocol  

TP  

transaction processing  

TPC  

Transaction Processing Council  

TPCW  

TPC Web benchmark  

TPF  

transaction processing facility  

TPM  

transaction processing monitor  

UCS  

universal character set [ISO 10646]  

UDP  

user Titograd protocol  

UI  

user interface  

UML  

unified modeling language [Rational]  

URL  

universal resource locator  

VAR  

value-added reseller  

VRML  

virtual reality modeling language  

WAN  

wide area network  

WIPS  

web interactions per second [TPCW]  

WWW  

world wide web  

XA  

extended architecture [X/Open]  

XML  

extended markup language  

jdb  

Java debugger [Sun]  

tar  

tape archive, tape archiver [UNIX]  

tps  

transactions per second  




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