NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

File Utility Program
(FUP).
An HP product on NonStop™ systems that allows users to create, copy, purge, and otherwise
manipulate disk files interactively.
Flows A Flow is a sequence of activities where messages flow in and out of NonStop SOAP 4.
FTP See File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
fully qualified file
name.
The complete name of a file in the Guardian environment. For a permanent disk file, this consists
of a node name (system name), volume name, subvolume name, and file identifier (file ID). In
interactive interfaces, such as PATHCOM and TACL, the parts of a file name are separated by
periods.
G
generated class A class, derived from one of the base SOAP classes, but specific to a TS/MP service or NonStop
process defined in an SDL file.
generated file A file created by the SoapAdminCL tool and included in a custom SOAP server for TS/MP or
NonStop process.
graphical user
interface (GUI).
A type of screen interface that typically includes pull-down menus, icons, dialog boxes, and online
help.
Guardian An environment available for interactive or programmatic use with the NonStop™ Kernel operating
system. Processes that run in the Guardian environment use the Guardian system procedure calls
as their application program interface, and might also use related APIs, such as the Pathsend
and TMF procedure calls.
Guardian services An application program interface (API) to the HP NonStop operating system, plus the tools and
utilities associated with that API.
H
handler A handler is the smallest unit of invocation within a phase. Handlers are an independent unit of
execution, which perform specific activities, such as logging a message, and consuming addressing
headers.
Hot deployment Hot deployment is the process of deploying Web services while the NonStop SOAP 4 server is
actively serving requests.
Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML).
The tagging language used to format Hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. It is built
on top of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
Hypertext
Transport Protocol
(HTTP)
The communications protocol used for transmitting data between servers and Web clients
(browsers) on the World Wide Web.
I
Internationalization
Internationalization (or "I18N") is the provision for conversion of data to the encoding a client
requires.
J
Java A programming language for browser-based internet applications.
M
marshal To serialize a C++/Java object into a data stream, for example, to convert a C++/Java object
into an XML document.
MEP See message exchange pattern.
Message Context An object for every message, regardless of whether it is from the client or server or processed
within NonStop SOAP 4. It stores information related to a particular message in the object.
message exchange
pattern
A message exchange pattern (MEP) describes the pattern of messages required by a
communications protocol to establish or use a communication channel.
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