JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer's Reference for SQL/MX Release 3.2.1

I
IEC See International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
IEEE Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
inlining Replacing a method call with the code for the called method, eliminating the call.
interactive Question-and-answer exchange between a user and a computer system.
interface In general, the point of communication or interconnection between one person, program, or
device and another, or a set of rules for that interaction. See also API.
International
Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC)
A standardization body at the same level as ISO.
International
Organization for
Standardization
(ISO)
A voluntary, nontreaty organization founded in 1946, responsible for creating international
standards in many areas, including computers and communications. Its members are the national
standards organizations of 89 countries, including ANSI.
Internet The network of many thousands of interconnected networks that use the TCP/IP networking
communications protocol. It provides e-mail, file transfer, news, remote login, and access to
thousands of databases. The Internet includes three kinds of networks:
• High-speed backbone networks such as NSFNET and MILNET
• Mid-level networks such as corporate and university networks
• Stub networks such as individual LANs
Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6)
IP specifies the format of packets and the addressing scheme. The current version of IP is IPv4.
IPv6 is a new version of IP designed to allow the Internet to grow steadily, both in terms of number
of hosts connected and the total amount of data traffic transmitted. (IP is pronounced eye-pea)
interoperability The ability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data between dissimilar
environments, including among systems from multiple vendors or with multiple versions of
1.
operating systems from the same vendor. HP documents often use the term connectivity in
this context, while other vendors use connectivity to mean hardware compatibility.
2. Within a NonStop system node , the ability to use the features or facilities of one environment
from another. For example, the gtacl command in the OSS environment allows an interactive
user to start and use a Guardian tool in the Guardian environment.
interpreter The component of a Java virtual machine that interprets bytecode into native machine code.
Invocation API The C-language API that starts a Java virtual machine and invokes methods on it. The Invocation
API is a subset of the JNI.
IPv6 See Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
ISO See International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
iTP Secure
WebServer
The HP web server with which the NonStop Server for Java integrates using servlets.
J
jar The Java Archive tool, which combines multiple files into a single Java Archive (JAR) file. Also,
the command to run the Java Archive Tool.
JAR file A Java Archive file, produced by the Java Archive Tool, jar.
java The Java application launcher, which launches an application by starting a Java runtime
environment, loading a specified class, and invoking that class's main method.
Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition
(J2EE platform)
An environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications. The J2EE platform consists
of a set of services, application programming interfaces (APIs) and protocols that provide the
functionality for developing multi-tiered, Web-based applications.
Java Conformance
Kit (JCK)
The collection of conformance tests that any vendor's JDK must pass in order to be conformant
with the Oracle specification.
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