NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

Glossary
A
administrator For a NonStop system, the person responsible for the installation and configuration of a software
subsystem on a NonStop node. Contrast with operator.
ANSI The American National Standards Institute.
API See application program interface.
application
program interface
A set of services (such as programming language functions or procedures) that are called by an
application program to communicate with other software components.
attribute An item of descriptive data associated with an XML element. An attribute has a name and a
value.
B
Business Logic A set of the functional algorithms that handle information exchange between a data store and a
user interface.
C
cache A temporary storage buffer.
CGI See Common Gateway Interface (CGI)..
client An application program that requests services to be performed. In discussions of the Pathway
environment, this term is used to refer to the part of an application that runs on some other vendor’s
hardware, such as a personal computer, Macintosh computer, UNIX workstation, or mainframe
computer system, and makes requests of a server process.
Client APIs A set of function calls that can be used to create client applications.
client stub files Template files generated using the WSDL2C tool, to design the NonStop SOAP application client.
client/server model A model for distributing applications. In general, but not always, in this model the client process
resides on a workstation and the server process resides on a second workstation, minicomputer,
or mainframe system. Communication takes the form of request and reply pairs, which are initiated
by the client and serviced by the server. (A server can make requests of another server, thus
acting as a client.) Client/server computing is often used to connect different types of workstations
or personal computers to a host computer system by means of supported communications protocols.
command line
client
A NonStop SOAP 4 client that can be run from the OSS command prompt.
Common Gateway
Interface (CGI).
A standard protocol used as the interface between Web servers and the programs these servers
use to process requests from Web clients.
configuration The definition or alteration of characteristics of an object.
configuration
context
The configuration data needed to start an instance of NonStop SOAP 4.
configuration file A file that includes configuration information for NonStop SOAP 4 server and itp WebServer
and underlying Web services. The configuration files for NonStop SOAP 4 include axis2.xml,
module.xml, services.xml, and itp_axis2.config.
context free A style of application access in which the application regards each request as independent of
all other requests. As a result, a different process can handle each request in a set or series.
context sensitive A style of application access in which a series of requests are logically related, requiring the
same server process to handle all requests in the series.
Contract-First
development
This approach of application development considers a WSDL definition as the starting point of
the development process. The WSDL becomes a contract between the service provider and the
client. The WSDL definition is created using Web services standards and the service implementation
is performed, based on this contract.
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