NonStop Server for Java 5.0 Programmer's Reference

Scalable TCP/IP (SIP)
A NonStop Server for Java feature that transparently provides a way to give scalability
and persistence to a network server written in Java.
serialization
See Object Serialization.
serialized object
An object that has undergone object serialization.
serialver
The Serial Version Command, which returns the serialVersionUID of one or more
classes. Also, the command to run the Serial Version Command.
server
(1) An implementation of a system used as a stand-alone system or as a node in an
Expand network.
(2) The hardware component of a computer system designed to provide services in
response to requests received from clients across a network. For example, NonStop
system servers provide transaction processing, database access, and other services.
(3) A process or program that provides services to a client. Servers are designed to
receive request messages from clients; perform the desired operations, such as database
inquiries or updates, security verifications, numerical calculations, or data routing to
other computer systems; and return reply messages to the clients.
servlet
A server-side Java program that any World Wide Web browser can access. It inherits
scalability and persistence from the Pathway CGI server that manages it.
The Java class named servlets executes in server environments such as World Wide
Web servers. The Servlet API is defined in a draft standard by Sun Microsystems. The
servlets class is not in the Core Packages for the JDK.
shell
The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system; the part of the
operating system that is an interface to the outside world.
SIP
See Scalable TCP/IP (SIP).
skeleton
In RMI, the complement of the stub. Together, skeletons and stubs form the interface
between the RMI services and the code that calls and implements remote objects.
socket
A logical connection between two application programs across a TCP/IP network.
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