System Architecture with XML
This guide comprehensively combines XML, the Internet, equalling Web services, which provide a great deal of strategic applications for your business.
TABLE OF CONTENTS System Architecture with XML
Glossary
- ACID transaction
- An acronym for the four primary attributes ensured to any database transaction: atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (see also Section 6.6.1). The ACID concept is described in ISO/IEC 10026-1:1992, Section 4.
- Activity
- A certain task within a process.
- Activity diagram
- A method to describe the orchestration of activities in UML.
- Actors
- Entities within a given scenario that are proactive; that is, they play a role. Actors can be end users, agents, and other systems.
- Agent
- A software agent is an autonomous, somehow intelligent software component that performs tasks to achieve some goals, most likely on behalf of a human user. The term agent is also used in business process management. In modeling the business domain an agent denotes a human or machine entity performing a process step that adds some value to the overall business process.
- Agent system
- The concept or implementation of agents that cooperate to perform tasks and achieve goals.
- Aggregation
- A complex entity that has been composed from less complex entities.
- AOM
- Asset-oriented modeling (see Section 3.2.2).
- API
- Application Programming Interface.
- Application server
- A Web server that can run applications for clients. Most application servers can offer application functionality in the form of Web services.
- Asset
- In asset-oriented modeling, an abstract notion for any object or relationship between objects that we want to include in a model.
- Association
- A relationship that somehow correlates entities with others.
- Authoring
- Process of setting up a presentation, for example, on the Web, normally using an appropriate tool set.
- Browser
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