NonStop Server for Java 4.2 Programmer's Reference

current host.
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scalability
The ability to increase the size and processing power of an online transaction processing system by
adding processors and devices to a system, systems to a network, and so on, and to do so easily
and transparently without bringing systems down. Sometimes called expandability.
Scalable TCP/IP (SIP)
A NonStop Server for Java feature that transparently provides a way to give scalability and
persistence to a network server written in Java.
SDK
See software development kit (SDK).
serialization
See Object Serialization.
serialized object
An object that has undergone object serialization.
serialver
The Serial Version Command, which returns the serialVersionUID of one or more classes.
Also, the command to run the Serial Version Command.
server
One of the following:
An implementation of a system used as a stand-alone system or as a node in an Expand
network.
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The hardware component of a computer system designed to provide services in response to
requests received from clients across a network. For example, NonStop system servers
provide transaction processing, database access, and other services.
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A process or program that provides services to a client. Servers are designed to receive
request messages from clients; perform the desired operations, such as database inquiries or
updates, security verifications, numerical calculations, or data routing to other computer
systems; and return reply messages to the clients.
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servlet
A server-side Java program that any World Wide Web browser can access. It inherits scalability
and persistence from the Pathway CGI server that manages it.
The Java class named servlets executes in server environments such as World Wide Web
servers. The Servlet API is defined in a draft standard by Sun Microsystems. The servlets class
is not in the Core Packages for the SDK.
shell