NonStop Server for Java 6.0 Programmer's Reference

uniform resource
locator (URL)
A draft standard for specifying an object on a network (such as a file, a newsgroup, or, with
JDBC, a database). URLs are used extensively on the World Wide Web . HTML documents use
them to specify the targets of hyperlinks .
URL See uniform resource locator (URL).
virtual machine
(VM)
A self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer. See also
Java virtual machine and Java Hotspot virtual machine .
VM See virtual machine (VM).
World Wide Web
(WWW)
An Internet client - server hypertext distributed information retrieval system that originated from
the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. On the WWW everything
(documents, menus, indexes) is represented to the user as a hypertext object in HTML format.
Hypertext links refer to other documents by their URLs. These can refer to local or remote resources
accessible by FTP, Gopher, Telnet, or news, as well as those available by means of the HTTP
protocol used to transfer hypertext documents. The client program (known as a browser ) runs
on the user's computer and provides two basic navigation operations: to follow a link or to send
a query to a server.
wrapper A shell script that sets up the proper execution environment and then executes the binary file that
corresponds to the shell's name.
WWW See World Wide Web (WWW).
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