Glossary of Acronyms

The following acronyms are used in this book. If an acronym is specific to a company, organization, or product, the company, organization, or product name is appended.

2PC	two-phase commit
3270	block-mode terminal—IBM
4GL	fourth-generation language
ACID	atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (properties of a transaction)
ACMS	Application Control and Management System—HP
ACP	Airline Control Program—IBM
ADO	ActiveX Data Objects—Microsoft
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
AP	application program
API	application programming interface
APPC	Advanced Program to Program Communication—IBM
AQ	Advanced Queuing—Oracle
ARM	Advanced RISC Machine—ARM Holdings
ASP	Active Server Pages—Microsoft
ATM	automated teller machine
ATMI	Application Transaction Manager Interface—Oracle
BMS	Basic Mapping Services—IBM
BPM	business process management
BPMN	Business Process Modeling Notation—OMG
CAP	consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance
CCI	Common Client Interface (part of JCA)—JCP
CDR	Common Data Representation—OMG
CGI	Common Gateway Interface—W3C
CICS	Customer Information and Control System—IBM
CLR	Common Language Runtime—Microsoft
COM	Component Object Model—Microsoft
COM+	Component Object Model plus—Microsoft
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture—OMG
CRM	customer relationship management
DAG	directed acyclic graph
DB	database manager
DBA	database administrator
DL/I	Data Language/I—IBM
DM	data manager
DNS	Domain Name System—IETF
DPL	Distributed Program Link—IBM
DRAM	dynamic random access memory
DSN	data source name
DTC	Distributed Transaction Coordinator—Microsoft
DTP	distributed transaction processing
ECI	external call interface (part of CICS)—IBM
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange—UN/EDIFACT
EDM	entity data model
EAI	enterprise application integration
EJB	Enterprise Java Beans—Java Enterprise Edition
EPI	external programming interface (part of CICS)—IBM
ERP	enterprise resource planning
ESB	enterprise service bus
FML	Field Manipulation Language—Oracle
GUI	graphical user interface
HIS	Host Integration Server—Microsoft
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language—W3C
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol—IETF
HTTPS	HTTP/TLS—IETF
ID	identifier
IDE	interactive development environment
IDL	interface definition language
IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
IIOP	Internet Inter-Orb Protocol—OMG
IIS	Internet Information Server—Microsoft
IMS	Information Management System—IBM
I/O	input/output
ISAPI	Internet Server Application Programming Interface—Microsoft
ISC	Intersystem Communication—IBM
Java EE	Java Enterprise Edition—JCP
Javax	Java extensions—JCP
JAXB	Java Architecture for XML Binding—JCP
JAX-RS	Java API for Restful Web Services—JCP
JAX-WS	Java API for XML Web Services—JCP
JCA	Java Connector Architecture—JCP
JCP	Java Community Process
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity—JCP
JMS	Java Messaging Service—JCP
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface—JCP
JPA	Java Persistence Architecture—JCP
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation—JSON.org
JSF	Java Server Faces—JCP
JSP	Java Server Pages—JCP
JTA	Java Transaction API—JCP
JTS	Java Transaction Service—JCP
LAN	Local Area Network
LINQ	Language-Integrated Query—Microsoft
LOB	Line of Business adapter—Microsoft
LSN	log sequence number
LTM	Lightweight Transaction Manager—Microsoft
LU6.2	Logical Unit 6.2 protocol—IBM
MFS	Message Format Service—IBM
MQ	message queue
MQI	Message Queue Interface—IBM
MRAM	magnetoresistive random access memory
MRO	Multiregion Operation—IBM
MSC	Multiple Systems Coupling—IBM
MSMQ	Microsoft Message Queue—Microsoft
MTBF	mean time between failures
MTTR	mean time to repair
MVI	modified version ID
NSAPI	Netscape Server API—Sun
NSK	NonStop Kernel—HP
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity—SQL Access Group
OLE	Object Linking and Embedding—Microsoft
OLE DB	Object Linking and Embedding, Database—Microsoft
OLTP	on-line transaction processing
OMG	Object Management Group
OpenVMS	Open Virtual Management System—HP
OO	object-oriented
OSI TP	Open Software Interconnect Transaction Processing—ISO
OSS	Open System Services—HP
OTMA	Open Transaction Manager Access—IBM
OTS	Object Transaction Service—OMG
PARS	Programmed Airline Reservation System—IBM
PC	personal computer
PCM	phase change memory
PL/SQL	Procedural Language/Structured Query Language—Oracle
POJO	plain old Java object
POWER	Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC—IBM
PowerPC	Power Performance Computing—Apple, IBM, and Motorola
PRAM	parameter random access memory
PSPE	Promotable Single Phase Enlistment—Microsoft
RAID	redundant array of inexpensive disks
RAM	random access memory
RCP	Rich Client Platform—Eclipse
RDF	Remote Database Facility—HP
REST	representational state transfer
RFID	radio frequency identification
RM	resource manager
RMI	Remote Method Invocation—JCP
RMI/IIOP	RMI over IIOP—JCP
RPC	remote procedure call
RSS	RDF Site Summary—RSS-DEV Working Group
RTR	Reliable Transaction Router—HP
SABRE	Semi-Automated Business Research Environment—Sabre Holdings
SALT	Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo—Oracle
SCA	Service Component Architecture—OASIS
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface—ANSI
SDF	Screen Definition Facility—IBM
SDO	Service Data Objects—OASIS
SI	Systems Interface—HP
SLA	service level agreement
SMP	symmetric multiprocessor
SNA	System Network Architecture—IBM
SOA	service-oriented architecture
SPARC	Scalable Processor Architecture—Sun
SPI	system programming interface
SQL	Structured Query Language—ISO
SQL/PSM	Structured Query Language/Persistent Stored Modules—ANSI
SSL	Secure Socket Layer—IETF
STDL	Structured Transaction Definition Language—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
TAL	Transaction Application Language—HP
TCP	Terminal Control Program—HP
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol—IETF
TDL	Task Definition Language—HP
TLS	Transport Layer Security—IETF
TM	transaction manager
TMF	Transaction Management Facility—HP
TP	transaction processing
TPC	Transaction Processing Performance Council
TPC-A, -B, -C, -E, -H	Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmarks A, B, C, E, and H
TPF	Transaction Processing Facility—IBM
tpm	transactions per minute
tpmC	transactions per minute—TPC-C
tps	transactions per second
tpsE	transactions per second—TPC-E
$/tpsE	cost per transaction per second—TPC-E
TX	Transaction Demarcation API—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
TxF	Transactional NT File System—Microsoft
TxRPC	Transactional Remote Procedure Call—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration–OASIS
UML	Unified Modeling Language—OMG
UN/EDIFACT	United Nations/ Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce, and Transport
URI	Uniform Resource Identifier—W3C
URL	Uniform Resource Locator—W3C
VAX	Virtual Address Extension—HP
VB	Visual Basic—Microsoft
VM	virtual machine
VSAM	Virtual Sequential Access Method—IBM
VSE	Virtual Storage Extended
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAN	wide area network
WCF	Windows Communication Foundation—Microsoft
WF	Windows Workflow Foundation—Microsoft
WPF	Windows Presentation Foundation—Microsoft
WSDL	Web Services Description Language—W3C
WS-AT	Web Services Atomic Transaction—OASIS
WS-BA	Web Services Business Activity—OASIS
WS-BPEL	Web Services Business Process Execution Language—OASIS
WS-C	Web Services Coordination—OASIS
WS-I	Web Services Interoperability Organization
WWW	World Wide Web
WYSIWYG	What you see is what you get
XA	Interface between TM and RM—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
XAML	Extensible Application Markup Language—Microsoft
XATMI	X/Open Application Transaction Manager Interface—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
XDR	External Data Representation—IETF
XHTML	Extensible Hypertext Markup Language—W3C
XID	X/Open transaction ID—The Open Group (formerly X/Open)
XML	Extensible Markup Language—W3C
XPath	XML Path Language—W3C
XRF	extended recovery facility—IBM
XSD	XML Schema Definition language—W3C
XSL	Extensible Stylesheet Language—W3C
XSLT	XSL Transformations—W3C