| ACID |
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability, the properties of SQL transactions |
| AD |
Anno Domini, the year of the Lord |
| Ajax |
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| AJP |
Apache JServ Protocol |
| AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices, a semiconductor manufacturer |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APR |
Apache Portable Runtime |
| ARIN |
American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ASF |
Apache Software Foundation |
| BC |
Before Christ |
| BCE |
Before Common Era, equivalent to BC but non-religious |
| BCP |
Best Current Practice, an Internet specification |
| BLOB |
Binary LOB |
| CA |
Certification Authority |
| CE |
Common Era, equivalent to AD but non-religious |
| CLI |
Command-Line Interface, interaction via the keyboard |
| CLOB |
Character LOB |
| CRUD |
Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete, the operations supported by a DBMS |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| DAO |
Data Access Object, a J2EE pattern |
| DBMS |
DataBase Management System |
| DCL |
Data Control Language, SQL grant, revoke, ... |
| DDL |
Data Definition Language, SQL create, alter, drop, rename, ... |
| DML |
Data Manipulation Language, SQL select, insert, update, delete, ... |
| DNS |
Domain Name System / Domain Name Server |
| DOM |
Document Object Model |
| DOS |
Disk Operating System, a relic from when hard disks were a novelty |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
| DVD |
Digital Versatile Disk, originally meaning Digital Video Disk |
| EE |
Enterprise Edition |
| EL |
The JSP Expression Language |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GB |
GigaBytes = 1 073 741 824 bytes of computer memory or one billion bytes of computer storage |
| GHz |
GigaHertz = one million cycles per second, a measure of frequency |
| GNU |
GNU is Not Unix, the bulk of Linux (which should be called GNU/Linux) |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface, interaction via mouse, graphic tablet, or touch screen |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language, the language used to write web pages |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the protocol to request and communicate web pages |
| HTTPS |
HTTP Secure |
| IANA |
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IDE |
Integrated Development Environment |
| IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IP |
Internet Protocol |
| IPv6 |
IP version 6, with 128-bit addressing |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISOC |
Internet SOCiety |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| ITU-T |
International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector |
| J2EE |
Java 2 Enterprise Edition, now superseded by release 6 |
| JAR |
Java ARchive |
| JAXP |
Java API for XML Processing |
| JCP |
Java Community Process |
| JDBC |
Java DataBase Connector, to access a database from Java |
| JDK |
Java Development Kit, software package necessary to develop Java code |
| JEE |
Java Enterprise Edition |
| JNDI |
Java Naming and Directory Interface |
| JRE |
Java Runtime Environment, software package necessary to execute Java bytecode |
| JSE |
Java Standard Edition |
| JSF |
JavaServer Faces |
| JSP |
JavaServer Pages |
| JSR |
Java Specification Request |
| JSSE |
Java Secure Socket Extension |
| JSTL |
JSP Standard Tag Library |
| JVM |
Java Virtual Machine |
| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LOB |
Large OBject, an SQL data type to store blocks of data |
| MB |
MegaBytes = 1 048 576 bytes of computer memory or one million bytes of computer storage |
| MS |
Microsoft |
| MSI |
Microsoft Windows Installer |
| MVC |
Model-View-Controller application architecture |
| ODBC |
Open DataBase Connectivity |
| OO |
Object Oriented |
| OS |
Operating System, software pre-installed on a computer to make available its functions |
| PC |
Personal Computer, a desktop or laptop running a version of the MS Windows OS |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format, the de-facto standard for posting documents onto the Web |
| PEM |
Privacy Enhanced Mail, the file extension for X.509 certificates |
| PHP |
Hypertext PreProcessor |
| POM |
Project Object Model |
| RFC |
Request For Comments, an Internet technical specification document |
| RI |
Reference Implementation |
| SAX |
Simple API for XML |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SP |
Service Pack, a set of several software updates released as a single package |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language, to work with databases. Sometimes pronounced as “Sequel”. |
| SSL |
Secure Socket Layer |
| STD |
STandarD protocol, an Internet technical specification |
| TCL |
Transaction Control, SQL commit, rollback, ... |
| TCP |
Transmission Control Protocol |
| TLD |
Tag Library Descriptor |
| TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
| UAC |
User Account Control, a protection mechanism of files |
| UCS |
Universal Character Set |
| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol |
| UEL |
Unified Expression Language, unified across JSP and JSF |
| UI |
User Interface |
| URI |
Uniform Resource Identifier, a string to identify a resource, more general than URL |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator, a string to reference an Internet resource |
| UTF-8 |
UCS Transformation Format – 8 bits |
| W3C |
WorldWide Web Consortium, the organization that standardizes HTML |
| WAR |
Web ARchive |
| WHATWG |
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (the WHAT Working Group) |
| XHTML |
HTML compliant with the XML standard |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| xmlns |
XML namespace |
| XSD |
XML Schema Definition |
| XSL |
Etensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT |
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations |
| XNI |
Xerces Native Interface |
