NonStop Server for Java 6.0 Programmer's Reference

processed while the requester waits, as opposed to queued or batched transactions, which are
processed at a later time. Online transaction processing can be used for many different kinds of
business tasks, such as order processing, inventory control, accounting functions, and banking
operations.
Open Database
Connectivity
(ODBC)
The standard Microsoft product for accessing databases.
Open System
Services (OSS)
An environment available for interactive and programmatic use with the NonStop operating
system . Processes that run in the OSS environment use the OSS API . Interactive users of the OSS
environment use the OSS shell for their command interpreter . Compare to Guardian.
OSS See Open System Services (OSS).
OTS See Object Transaction Service (OTS).
P
package A collection of related classes; for example, JDBC.
Pathsend API The application program interface to a Pathway system that enables a Pathsend process to
communicate with a server process.
Pathsend process A client (requester) process that uses the Pathsend interface to communicate with a server process.
A Pathsend process can be either a standard requester, which initiates application requests, or
a nested server, which is configured as a server class but acts as a requester by making requests
to other servers. Also called a Pathsend requester.
Pathway A group of software tools for developing and monitoring OLTP programs that use the client /
server model. Servers are grouped into server classes to perform the requested processing. On
NonStop systems, this group of tools is packaged as two separate products: TS/MP and
Pathway/TS .
Pathway CGI An extension to iTP Secure WebServer that provides CGI -like access to Pathway server classes.
Extended in the NonStop Server for Java so that Java servlets can be invoked from a
ServletServerClass, a special Pathway CGI server.
Pathway/TS An HP product that provides tools for developing and interpreting screen programs to support
OLTP programs in the Guardian environment on NonStop servers . Pathway/TS screen programs
communicate with terminals and intelligent devices. Pathway/TS requires the services of the
TS/MP product.
persistence A property of a programming language where created objects and variables continue to
exist and retain their values between runs of the program.
1.
2. The capability of continuing in existence, such as a program running as a process.
portability The ability to transfer programs from one platform to another without reprogramming. A
characteristic of open systems. Portability implies use of standard programming languages such
as C .
Portable Operating
System Interface X
(POSIX)
A family of interrelated interface standards defined by ANSI and IEEE . Each POSIX interface is
separately defined in a numbered ANSI/IEEE standard or draft standard. The standards deal
with issues of portability, interoperability, and uniformity of user interfaces.
POSIX See Portable Operating System Interface X (POSIX).
private key An encryption key that is not known to all parties.
protocol A set of formal rules for transmitting data, especially across a network. Low-level protocols define
electrical and physical standards, bit-ordering, byte-ordering, and the transmission, error detection,
and error correction of the bit stream. High-level protocols define data formatting, including the
syntax of messages, the terminal-to-computer dialogue, character sets, sequencing of messages,
and so on.
Pthread A POSIX thread.
public key An encryption key that is known to all parties.
pure Java Java that relies only on the Core Packages, meaning that it can run anywhere.
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