OSB Processing Terms and Acronyms

AMI

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

CSV

Comma-Separated Values

FA

File Adapter. Oracle JCA File Adapter.

FP

File Parser, Java code that parses input file and generates Plain XML

GA

Smart Grid Gateway generic adapter

GFP

Generic File Processor, Java code that is invoked by FA. It communicates with FP

IMD

Initial Measurement Data

IMD XML

The final XML containing the IMD.

JAR

Java Archive

JAXB

Java Architecture for XML Binding

JCA

Java Connector Architecture

JDeveloper

Freeware Oracle integrated development environment for development of Java-based SOA and Java EE applications

JMS

Java Message Service

MDB

Message Driven Bean

SMDF

Service and Measurement Data Foundation

OSB

Oracle Service Bus

OUAF

Oracle Utilities Application Framework

Plain XML

An intermediate XML containing all of the values from the inbound file. It is necessary because OSB Message Flow can handle only XML.

PPS

Processing Proxy Service, OSB proxy service where the validation and transformation of Plain XML is implemented. It is necessary to catch errors that occurred before Plain XML is transformed to IMD or Device Event seeder structures.

RFD

Rejected File Descriptor, File containing information about a portion of input file that was a cause of error.

RPPS

Result Processing Proxy Service, OSB proxy service where processing of transformation result is implemented. It is necessary to catch errors that occurred after Plain XML is transformed to IMD or Device Event seeder structures.

SGG

Smart Grid Gateway

Weblogic

Oracle J2EE Application Server

WSD

Web Session Directory

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

XPath

Programming language for selecting nodes from an XML document

XQuery

Programming language to query XML.