GLOSSARY OF TERMS Cascading style Sheet ( CSS ): is a web page derived from multiple sources with a defined order

of precedence where the definitions of any style element conflict. JAVA 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE): is Java-based software infrastructure. This is a standardized set of infrastructure software components written in the 'run-anywhere' Java programming language. JavaBeans: is an object-oriented programming interface from Sun Microsystems that lets you build reuseable applications or program building blocks called components that can be deployed in a network on any major operating system platform. Hypertext Transfer Protocol: provides a standard for Web browsers and servers to communicate. SQL (Structured Query Language): is a standardized query language for requesting information from a database. XML (Extensible Markup Language): is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. XSL (Extensible stylesheet Language): formerly called Extensible style Language, is a language for creating a style sheet that describes how data sent over the Web using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is to be presented to the user. Weblogic: is a server software application that runs on a middle tier, between back-end databases and related applications and browser-based thin clients. Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) : a platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications by performing services in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy systems. Structured Query Language (pronounced SQL or Sequel): A language used to create, maintain, and query relational databases. DTD (Document Type Definition): states what tags and attributes are used to describe content in an SGML, XML or HTML document, where each tag is allowed, and which tags can appear within other tags. Object Oriented Programming (OOP): type of programming in which Java Developers define not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations (functions) that can be applied to the data structure. SGML (S tandard Generalized Markup Language ): a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document. PHP: H ypertext Preprocessor , an open source, server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Open Source: refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge. Open source code is typically created as a

collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations. There are two definitions for ASP: Application Service Provider: generally provides software via a wide area network from a centralized data center. Allows companies to outsource and more efficiently upgrade software. Active Server Page: is the specification for a Web page that is dynamically created by the Web server and contains both HTML and scripting code. JSP (J ava Server Page): A server-side technology that are an extension to the Java servlet technology that was developed by Sun. Servlet: An applet that runs on a server, usually meaning a Java applet that runs on a Web server. Server-side : residing on or taking place in the server computer of a client-server network. Client-server: An architecture in which one computer can get information from another. The client is the computer that asks for access to data, software, or services. The server, which can be anything from a personal computer to a mainframe, supplies the requested data or services for the client. There are two definitions for Multi-tier: Multi-tier client server: A form of client/server application that uses the multitiered architecture. Multi-tiered architecture: Refers to 4-, 5-, or even higher-tiered architectures. It is the most complex type of architecture, splitting the application and database management tasks into many discrete components Visual Basic: an event-driven procedure that are called automatically when the end-user chooses menu items, clicks the mouse, moves objects on the screen, etc. Scripts: a list of commands that can be executed without user interaction.