ACE

Adaptive Communications Environment

ANSA

Advanced Network Systems Architecture

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

BOA

Basic Object Adapter

CCM

CORBA Component Model

CDR

Common Data Representation

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPU

Central Processing Unit

DCE

Distributed Computing Environment

DCE CIOP

DCE Common Inter ORB Protocol

DCOM

Distributed Componenent Object Model

DDCF

Distributed Document Component Facility

DII

Dynamic Invocation Interface

DPE

Distributed Processing Environment

DSI

Dynamic Skeleton Interface

DSOM

Distributed System Object Model

ESIOP

Environment Specific Inter ORB Protocol

FIFO

First in First out

GIOP

General Inter ORB Protocol

GNU

GNU's not UNIX

GNU GPL

GNU General Public License

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier

IDL

Interface Definition Language

IIOP

Internet Inter ORB Protocol

IMR

Implementation Repository

IOR

Interoperable Object Reference

IP

Internet Protocol

IR

Interface Repository

ISO

International Standards Organization

ITU

International Telecommunication Union

LOA

Library Object Adapter

Mico

Mico Is CORBA

NCCE

Native Computing and Communications Environment

OA

Object Adapter

OMA

Object Management Architecture

OMG

Object Management Group

OODB OA

Object Oriented Database Object Adapter

ORB

Object Request Broker

OSF

Open Software Foundation

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

POA

Portable Object Adapter

POS

Persistent Object Service

RFP

Request for Proposal

RIOP

Realtime Inter ORB Protocol

RMI

Remote Method Invocation

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

SII

Static Invocation Interface

SSI

Static Skeleton Interface

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

TAO

The ACE ORB

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TINA

Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture

UML

Uniform Modelling Language

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

WWW

World Wide Web

YACC

Yet Another Compiler Compiler