Glossary

3270: Once rampant family of IBM terminal offerings, where the term now refers to the data stream still widely used for mainframe application access.
5250: IBM terminal family for AS/400 systems, where the term now refers to the data stream still widely used for iSeries application access.
ActiveX: Microsoft s strategic object-oriented technology, which applies to COM and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies.
Apache: Doyen of the open-source movement that is particularly active and germane in the areas of XML, Java, and Web server technology.
Applet: Small, mini-applications that run within a Web browser or an applet viewer and have strictly limited access to host resources, in particular any kinds of files.
Application Server: Service-rich (e.g., load balancing) software platforms for executing contemporary applications written in languages such as Java and C++.
AS/400s: Highly successful IBM mini-computer family introduced in 1988. Now referred to as the iSeries.
ASP: Microsoft s server-side scripting technology for creating dynamic Web content.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode: A once swaggering, Layer 2 data transfer mechanism, based on the very fast switching of fixed-length, 53-byte cells, which was considered the only way to realize the bandwidth required for supporting multimedia applications.
Authentication: Process of uniquely identifying and validating a person, application, or Web service.
Autonomic Computing: Self-managing, self-healing systems epitomized by IBM s Project eLiza technology.
AWT: Java components for building user interfaces.

BEEP: Nascent, connection-oriented, asynchronous protocol that permits simultaneous and independent exchanges of messages between peers.
BizTalk Server: Microsoft server offering targeted at e-business...

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