iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

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Glossary-1
Glossary
This glossary defines terms used both in this manual and in other Compaq manuals.
Both industry-standard terms and Compaq-specific terms are included.
application program interface (API). The set of functions or procedures that permits a
user’s programs to communicate with the NonStop Kernel operating system kernel and
services.
attribute. An item of descriptive data associated with an XML element. An attribute has a
name and a value.
attribute type. A type of data that can be contained in the value of an attribute, such as ID,
IDREF, ENTITY, CDATA, and so on.
browser. A graphical user interface (GUI) used to access sites on the World Wide Web.
Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mosaic, and Lynx are commonly used browsers.
CCITT (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee). A division of
the United Nations International Telecommunications Union that coordinates standards-
setting activities.
CGI. See Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
CERN. The European Laboratory for particle physics. The originators of the HyperText
Transport Protocol (HTTP) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) concepts.
character data (CDATA). The text in an XML document that is not part of the document’s
mark up and that is not parsed by the XML parser.
CommerceNet. A consortium that was formed in Silicon Valley to promote electronic
commerce over the Internet.
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.
Compaq NonStop Kernel. The Compaq operating system, which consists of core and
system services. The operating system does not include any application program
interfaces (APIs).
connection. The path between two protocol modules that provides reliable stream delivery
service. In the Internet, a connection extends from a Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP) module on one machine to a TCP module on another machine.
Data Definition Language (DDL). A A mechanism, proprietary to Compaq, for describing
data structures, such as request and response formats supported by a NonStop TS/MP
application.
deployment descriptor. The web.xml file that contain resource definitions such as MIME
types, mapping of requests to servlets, access control and servlet initialization
parameters.