Oracle Application Server List of Acronyms

Here is a list of acronyms, and their expanded names:

ACI: access control item
ACL: access control list
ASO: Advanced Security Option
ASR: advanced symmetric replication
BMP: bean-managed persistence
CA: certificate authority
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining
CDS: Cell Directory Services
CMP: container-managed persistence
DAD: database access descriptor
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment
DDL: data definition language
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DIB: directory information base
DIT: directory information tree
DN: distinguished name
DNS: Domain Name System
DRG: directory replication group
DSA: directory system agent
DSE: directory-specific entry
ETL: extract, transform, and load
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
GDS: Global Directory Service
GUID: global unique identifier
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
IIS: Internet Information Server
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
LCS: log catch-up server
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF: LDAP Data Interchange Format
MDS: master definition site
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
OC4J: Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE
OCI: Oracle Call Interface
PKI: public key infrastructure
RDN: relative distinguished name
RMS: remote master site
SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SGA: System Global Area
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
SID: system identifier
SSL: Secure Socket Layer
SSO: single sign-on
TLS: Transport Layer Security
UI: user interface
WSDL: Web Services Description Language