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Glossary

A B C D E F G H I J L N O P R S T U V W

abstract class

In Java, a class designed only as a parent from which subclasses can be derived, which is not itself appropriate

for instantiation. An abstract class is often used to "abstract out" incomplete sets of features, which can then be

shared by a group of sibling subclasses that add different variations of the missing pieces.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers. ASCII uses 7 bits for each character. It does

not include accented letters or any other letter forms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S or the

Norwegian ae-ligature). Compare with Unicode.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

The United States government body responsible for approving US standards in many areas, including computers

and communications. ANSI is a member of ISO. ANSI sells ANSI and ISO (international) standards.

ANSI

See American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

API

See application program interface (API).

application program

One of these:

A software program written for or by a user for a specific purpose

A computer program that performs a data processing function rather than a control function

application program interface (API)

A set of functions or procedures that are called by an application program to communicate with other software

components.

ASCII

See American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).

autocommit mode

A mode in which a JDBC driver automatically commits a transaction without the programmer's calling

commit().

BLOB

A data type used to represent Binary Large OBjects. These are typically used to store, in Enscribe files, images

or serialized objects in the database. The internal structure and content of a Blob object are immaterial to the

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