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

A user-defined action that a client program (usually running on a workstation) requests
from a server.
Transaction Management Facility (TMF)
A set of Compaq software products that assures database integrity by preventing
incomplete updates to a database. It can continuously save the changes that are made to a
database (in real time) and back out these changes when necessary. It can also take online
"snapshot" backups of the database and restore the database from these backups.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
One of the most widely available nonvendor-specific protocols, designed to support
large, heterogeneous networks of systems.
TS/MP
See Compaq NonStop
TM
TS/MP.
U
Unicode
A character-coding scheme designed to be an extension of ASCII. By using 16 bits for
each character (rather than ASCII's 7), Unicode can represent almost every character of
every language and many symbols (such as "&") in an internationally standard way,
eliminating the complexity of incompatible extended character sets and code pages.
Unicode's first 128 codes correspond to those of standard ASCII.
uniform resource locator (URL)
A draft standard for specifying an object on a network (such as a file, a newsgroup, or,
with JDBC, a database). URLs are used extensively on the World-Wide Web. HTML
documents use them to specify the targets of hyperlinks.
URL
See uniform resource locator (URL).
V
virtual machine
See Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
W
World Wide Web (WWW)
An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system that
originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. On