Oracle9i CORBA Developer's Guide and Reference
Release 1 (9.0.1)

Part Number A90187-01
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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].

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 queueing [Oracle9i]

ASCII

American standard code for information interchange

ASP

active server pages [Microsoft]
application service provider

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

component object model [Microsoft]

COM+

component object model, extended [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 [Oracle9i]

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

IIS

Internet information server [Microsoft]

IP

Internet protocol

IPC

interprocess communication

IS

information services

ISAM

indexed sequential access method

ISAPI

Internet server API [Microsoft]

ISO

international standards organization (translation)

ISP

Internet service provider

ISQL

interactive SQL [Interbase]

ISV

independent software vendor

IT

information technology

J2EE

Java 2 Enterprise Edition [Sun]

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

JLS

Java language specification

JMF

Java media framework

JMS

Java messaging service

JNDI

Java naming and directory interface

JNI

Java native interface

JOB

Java Objects for Business [Sun]

JPEG

joint photographic experts group

JRMP

Java remote message protocol

JSP

Java server pages [Sun]
(sometimes used for Java Stored Procedure [Oracle])

JTA

Java transaction API

JTS

Java transaction service

JWS

Java Web Server [Sun]

KB

kilobyte

LAN

local area network

LDAP

lightweight directory access protocol

LDIF

LDPA data interchange format

LOB

large object

MB

megabyte

MIME

multipurpose Internet mail extensions

MIS

management information services

MOM

message-oriented middleware

MPEG

motion picture experts group

MTS

multi-threaded server [Oracle]

MTS

Microsoft Transaction Server [Microsoft]

NCLOB

national character large object

NIC

network information center [Internet]

NNTP

net news transfer protocol

NSAPI

Netscape server application programming interface

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]

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

SAF

server application function [Netscape]

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 datagram protocol

UI

user interface

UML

unified modeling language [Rational]

URI

uniform resource identifier

URL

universal resource locator

URN

universal resource name

VAR

value-added reseller

VB

Visual Basic [Microsoft]

VRML

virtual reality modeling language

WAI

web application interface [Netscape]

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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