Glossary

AXFR

Zone Transfer / Asynchronous Transfer Full Range

ACID

DBMS - Transaction

API

Application Programming Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Byte

Unit of information

CLI

Command line interface

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

DITA

Darwin Information Typing Architecture

DNS

Domain Name System

Docbook

XML based authoring system

Docker

OS Level virtualization

DTD

Document Type Definition

Epub

An ISO Electronic Publication standard.

FO

Formatting Objects

Framework

Software providing an abstraction for a particular problem domain thereby facilitating development. Examples:

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HdM

Hochschule der Medien

HQL

Hibernate Query Language

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language, version 5

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IETF

The Internet Engineering Task Force

Jar

Java archive, typically represented by a .zip file

Java
Java™

The Java programming language

Javadoc™

The Java documentation system

JAXB

Java Architecture for XML Binding

JDBC™

Java DataBase Connectivity

JDK™

Java Development Kit

JPA

Java Persistence Architecture

JTA

Java Transaction API

Junit

Junit

JRE™

Java Runtime Environment

LaTeX

Leslie Lamports TeX based typesetting system.

LDAP
DIT

Directory Information Tree

DN

Distinguished Name

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDIF

LDAP Data Interchange Format

RDN

Relative Distinguished Name

MathML

Mathematical Markup Language

Maven

Software project management and comprehension tool

NIC

Network Interface Controller

ORM

Object Relational Mapping

OxygenXml

XML development and editor application suite.

PDF

Adobe's Portable Document Format standard.

Permanent link

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

RDBMS

Relational database management system

RelaxNG

An Xml schema defining languge. Not to be confused with “XML Schema”.

RGB

RGB color model

Schematron

A rule based validation language

SMB

Server Message Block

SNI

Server Name Indication

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

Software
Apache Directory Studio

Apache Directory Studio

Bind

Bind DNS name server software

Eclipse

Java IDE available from eclipse.org.

Git

The Git version control system

Intellij IDEA

Java IDE available from JetBrains.

Mysql™

The Mysql database server

Postgresql™

The Postgresql database server

Terraform

Terraform by HashiCorp

Ubuntu

Linux Distribution

SQL

Structured Query Language

SQL - DDL

Structured Query Language: Data Definition Language

SQL - DML

Structured Query Language: Data Manipulation Language

ssh

Secure shell

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer protocol standard, superseded by TLS

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

TeX

The TeX typesetting system

TLS

Transport Layer Security

Unicode

The Unicode standard

UNIX

A former operation system trademark

URL

Uniform resource locator

VCS

Version control system

Vnc

Virtual Network Computing

VPN

Virtual Private Network

xjc

Architecture for XML Binding Binding Compiler

XML

Extended Markup Language

XMLMind

XMLmind XML Editor

XSL

Extended Stylesheet Language

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