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Software Acronyms

Oracle

AcronymMeaningNotes
OIDOracle Internet DirectoryOID is an LDAP compliant user directory, with a structure suited to Oracle Applications
HTMLDBHTML DBHTML DB is now known as APEX (Application Express). It provides a quick way to develop web page flows against an Oracle database or web service

Service Architecture

AcronymMeaningNotes
SAMLSecurity Assertion Markup LanguageAn XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization details between security domains
WSSWeb Services SecurityAlso known as WS-Security and is developed in the Oasis-Open forum. The protocol contains specifications on how integrity and confidentiality can be enforced on Web Services messaging , using SAML, Kerberos and X.509. It also discusses how to put binary security into the SOAP message and header