Glossary/Acronyms Used in this weblogic
ACID Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (for DB transactions)
ACK acknowledgement-based
AsyncRep Asynchronous HTTP Session Replication
API Application programming interface
BPEL Business Process Execution Language
CA Certificate Authority (issues SSL certificates)
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CLI Command-line interface (as opposed to GUI) Call-level interface (part of JDBC)
CLV Certificate Lookup and Validation
CSR Certificate Signing Request
CSS Common Security Services
CMO Current Management Object (part of WLST)
COM Component Object Model (see also DCOM and jCOM)
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DBA Database administrator
DCOM Distributed COM
DD deployment descriptor
DDL Data Definition Language (part of SQL)
DMZ Demilitarized Zone (network between firewalls)
DNS domain name server
DoS denial of service
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DTD document type definition
EAR Enterprise Archive
EE Enterprise Edition (as opposed to Standard Edition [SE])
EJB Enterprise JavaBeans
FIFO First in, first out (queuing)
FMW Fusion Middleware
GMD guaranteed message delivery
GUI Graphical user interface (as opposed to CLI)
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IIS Internet Information Server
J2SDK Java 2 SDK Standard Edition
JAAS Java Authentication and Authorization Service
JACC Java Authorization Contract for Containers
JAR Java Archive
Java EE Java Platform Enterprise Edition
Java SE 6 Java Platform Standard Edition 6
JAX-WS Java API for XML-Based Web Services
JAZN Java AuthoriZatioN
JCA Java EE Connector Architecture
JCE Java Cryptography Extensions
jCOM WLS Java-to-COM bridge
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JDK Java Development Kit
JKS Java KeyStore
JMS Java Message Service
JMX Java Management Extensions
JNDI Java Naming and Directory Interface
JPA Java Persistence API
JPS Java Platform Security
JRF Java Required Files (also known as Portability Layer [PL]; Oracle Web services stack for SOA and WebCenter)
JRMP Java Remote Method Protocol
JSSE Java Secure Socket Extensions
JSP JavaServer Pages
JSR Java Specification Request
JTA Java Transaction API
JVM Java Virtual Machine
JWS Java Web Service
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF LDAP Data Interchange Format (readable text)
LVC Live Virtual Class
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MSI Managed Server Independence
NES Netscape Enterprise Server
NIC Network Interface Card (usually an Ethernet adapter)
O/R object-relational
OAAM Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OHS Oracle HTTP Server
OID Oracle Internet Directory
OOTB Out Of The Box (by default; without modification)
OPMN Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server
OPSS Oracle Platform Security Services
ORB Object Request Broker
OS Operating system (examples: Windows, Linux)
OTN Oracle Technology Network
PAM Pluggable Authentication Module
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PTP Point To Point
QoS Quality of Service
RAC Real Application Clusters (for multihost databases)
RAR Resource Adapter Archive
RBAC Role-Based Access Control (part of JPS)
RCU Repository Creation Utility
RMAN Recovery Manager (for the database)
RMI Remote Method Invocation
RSH Remote Shell (as opposed to SSH)
SAF store-and-forward
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SDK Software development kit (programming tools)
SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
SLA service-level agreements
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOA Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL Structured Query Language
SSH Secure Shell (as opposed to RSH)
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSPI Security Services Provider Interface
T3 An optimized, proprietary communications protocol used to transport data between WebLogic Server and other Java programs, including clients and other WebLogic Servers.
T3S T3 protocol using SSL
TAR Tape Archive
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
TTL time-to-live
URL Uniform Resource Locator
VM Virtual Machine
WAN Wide Area Network
WAR Web Archive
WLDF WebLogic Diagnostics Framework
WLS WebLogic Server
WLST WebLogic Scripting Tool
WSIT Web Services Interoperability Technologies
XA X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing (part of two-phase commit)
XACML eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language.