NonStop Server for Java (NSJ) Programmer's Guide (NSJ 2.0+)

communicate with other software components.
ASCII
See American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).
autocommit mode
A mode in which a JDBC
TM
driver automatically commits a transaction without the
programmer's calling commit().
AWT
See Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT).
B
BDK
See JavaBeans
TM
Development Kit (BDK).
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 NonStop
TM
Server for Java.
branded
A JVM that Sun Microsystems, Inc. has certified as conformant.
browser
A program that allows you to read hypertext. The browser gives some means of viewing
the contents of nodes and of navigating from one node to another. Internet Explorer,
Netscape Navigator, NCSA Mosaic, Lynx, and W3 are examples for browsers for the
WWW. They act as clients to remote servers.
bytecode
The code that javac, the Java compiler, produces. When the JVM loads this code, it
either interprets it or just-in-time compiles it into native RISC code.
C
C language
A widely used, general-purpose programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie of
Bell Labs in the late 1960s. C is the primary language used to develop programs in UNIX
environments.
C++ language
A derivative of the C language that has been adapted for use in developing
object-oriented programs.