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====== Acronyms ======

This page covers commonly used acronyms in the Java world.

===== A - H =====
 
^Acronym^Full Text^Meaning^
|AWT|Abstract Windows Toolkit  |This toolkit allows you to add buttons, scroll bars and much more to applets and applications|
|Cocoon|Apache Cocoon|Cocoon is a Spring based framework for web page and service delivery. More info is available [[http://cocoon.apache.org|here]]|
|CBA|Component Based Architecture | A CBA will save the state of each component on a page when a new page is requested and then restore it when the new page is delivered.  By default it uses JSP as its display technology| 
|EJB|Enterprise Java Beans  |EJB is a managed, server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. An EJB container can contain 3 types of beans : session beans, entity beans and message beans|


===== I - M =====

^Acronym^Full Text^Meaning^
|J2SE|Java 2 Standard Edition  |The standard edition is typically used to build small applications, web pages and client applications|
|J2EE|Java 2 Enterprise Edition  |J2EE includes a basic application server, more APIs than the J2SE and more functionality. <html> <br></html>J2EE is the version used for enterprise application development and has APIs that allows for  distributed applications and to make the system interact with non-Java systems. It has a unified security model and offers powerful control over transactions|
|J2ME|Java 2 Micro Edition  |J2ME is normally used to create applications to PDAs and mobiles|
|JAAS|Java Authentication and Authorisation Service|JAAS provides a series of APIs to create an authorisation layer|
|JMS|Java Message Service  |JMS provides a series of APIs for asynchronous messaging, including message queuing and point-to-point and publish /subscribe types of message-oriented middleware services.|
|JNDI|Java Naming and Directory Interface|JNDI is a series of APIs that is used to connect a Java application with remote EJB components|
|JSF|Java Server Faces |JSF is a web application framework that uses a component-based approach|
|JSP|Java Server Pages  |These are server side dynamic pages that include both HTML and Java code|
|JSTL|Java Standard Tag Library  |JSTL extends the JSP specification by adding a tag library of JSP tags for common tasks, such as XML data processing, conditional execution, loops and internationalization.<html> <br></html>JSTL provides an effective way to embed logic within a JSP page without using embedded Java code directly.|


===== N - T =====

^Acronym^Full Text^Meaning^
|REST|Representational State Transfer|A collection of network architecture principles that outline how resources are defined and addressed.  Often used to mean an interface that transmits data over HTTP without additional overhead such as SOAP.|
|RMI|Remote Method Invocation  |RMI allows an application to call methods and access variables inside another application. This application may be running in a different Java environment on a different server. RMI allows objects to be passed over a network|

===== T - Z =====

^Acronym^Full Text^Meaning^
|WSDL|Web Services Description Language|WSDL provides the ability to describe the interface of a web service in XML. A service is defined as a collection of endpoints / ports as well as the parameters for inbound and outbound communication |