Active Directory A Microsoft
technology, part of Active Platform, that enables applications to
find, use, and manage directory resources (such as user names,
network printers, and permissions) in a distributed computing
environment.
Canonicalization Canonical data
follows a rule or set pattern, such as a file path:
c:\myfolder\myfile.txt. Canonicalization is the process of
converting non canonical data into its canonical form e.g. a
relative file path into an absolute file path.
COM
(Component Object Model) Microsoft COM technology in the Microsoft
Windows-family of Operating Systems enables software components to
communicate. COM is used by developers to create re-usable software
components, link components together to build applications, and
take advantage of Windows services. The family of COM technologies
includes COM+, Distributed COM (DCOM) and ActiveX® Controls.
COM+ COM+ is the name of the
COM-based services and technologies first released in Windows 2000.
COM+ brought together the technology of COM components and the
application host of Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS). COM+
automatically handles difficult programming tasks such as resource
pooling, disconnected applications, event publication and
subscription and distributed transactions.
CRC
(Cyclic Redundancy Check) A procedure that checks for errors in
data transmission by using a complex calculation to generate a
number that is based on the transmitted data. The sending device
performs the calculation before transmission and includes it in the
packet that it sends to the receiving device. After transmission,
the receiving device repeats the same calculation. If both devices
obtain the same result, the transmission is assumed to be error
free.
DCOM (Distributed Component Object
Model) Microsoft's extension of their Component Object Model (COM)
to support objects distributed communication across a network.
GNU
Acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX, pronounced "guh-noo."
LINQ Language Integrated Query
(pronounced "link") is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that
adds native data querying capabilities to the .NET languages.
Microsoft LINQ defines a set of proprietary query operators that
can be used to query, project and filter data in arrays, enumerable
classes, XML (XLINQ), relational database, and third party data
sources.
Loose Coupling A way of describing
systems that can be taken apart or revised without damaging the
entire system. If a component is loosely coupled then it doesn't
rely heavily on other components.
MIME Multi-Purpose Internet Mail
Extensions. A set of extensions to the Internet Mail standards that
supports the inclusion of multi-part and multimedia files, such as
sound and video, in e-mail messages.
Multiplexing A technique used in
communications and input/output operations to transmit a number of
separate signals simultaneously over a single channel or line. To
maintain the integrity of each signal on the channel, multiplexing
can separate the signals by time, space, or frequency. The device
used to combine the signals is a multiplexer.
MUX
(Multiplexer) A device that funnels several different streams of
data over a common communications line. Multiplexers are used to
attach many communications lines to a smaller number of
communications ports or to attach a large number of communications
ports to a smaller number of communications lines.
OLAP (On Line Analytical
Processing) A database technology that has been specially designed
to deal with high performance querying and reporting. OLAP data is
organised hierarchically and stored in cubes instead of tables.
POP3 Post Office Protocol 3. A
protocol that provides a simple, standardized way for users to
access mailboxes and download messages to their computers.
RFC
Request For Comments are the working notes of the Internet research
and development community. These documents contain protocol and
model descriptions, experimental results, and reviews. All Internet
standard protocols are written up as RFCs.
RPC
(Remote Procedure Call) Is a protocol that enables distributed
system components to communicate with eachother.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
The protocol widely implemented on the Internet for exchanging
e-mail messages.
SOAP SOAP is a lightware protocol
for exchanging messages between application components. SOAP is one
of the main enabling protocols for Web Services. It is based on XML
running mainly on top of HTTP.
UDDI (Universal Description,
Discovery and Integration protocol) A directory model for web
services.
URI
(Uniform Resource Identifier) The address of an Internet resource.
A URI is the unique name used to access the resource. It is not
necessarily a specific file location (it may be a call to an
application or a database, for example), which is why it is
preferred over the similar acronym URL (Uniform Resource
Locator).
XML
(eXtensible Markup Language) The universal format for structured
documents and data on the Web. XML is an industry-standard protocol
administered by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML is a key
enabling technology for Microsoft .NET