Abbreviations
The following terms and acronyms are used throughout this guide.
Application Names
Term
Expanded Form
C2M
Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter
NMS
Oracle Utilities Network Management System
General Terms
Term
Description
DVM
Domain Value Map
BPEL
Business Process Execution Language
MDS
Metadata Store
EBF
Enterprise Business Flow
JMS
Java Message Service
JMS Queue
A staging area that contains messages those have been sent and are waiting to be read. The JMS Queues are available on the WebLogic Application Server.
SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture - Software modules provided as services can be integrated or used by several applications using SOA, even if their respective architectures are substantially different. Rather than defining an API, SOA defines the interface in terms of protocols and functionality.
Edge applications
Applications involved in the integration - Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (CCB) and Oracle Utilities Network Management System (NMS).
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks.
SA
CCB Service Agreement
SP
CCB Service Point
XSD
A schema definition file
Fuzzy Calls
Trouble Calls that are not initially associated with a customer or device
UI
User Interface