Abbreviations
The following terms and acronyms are used throughout this guide.
Application Names
Term
Description
OUCCB/CCB
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (CCB)
OUNMS/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 that are 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
The applications that are involved in the integration - CCB and 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
XAI
XML Application Integration. A CCB utility used to configure the system transfer information between CCB and external applications using XML. XAI exposes system business objects as a set of XML based web services. The service can be invoked via different methods (such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Java Message Service (JMS)). Consequently, any application or tool that can send and receive XML documents can now access the rich set of system business objects.
XSD
A schema definition file.
Fuzzy Calls
Trouble Calls that are not initially associated with a customer or device
UI
User Interface