| Acronym | Meaning | Description |
| ADF | Application Development Framework | An end-to-end J2EE framework that simplifies development by providing out of the box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience. |
| ANT | Another Neat Tool | A software tool for automating software build processes. It is written in the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects. |
| API | Application Programming Interface | The interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. |
| B2B | Business-to-Business | Referes to automated processes between trading partners. |
| BAM | Business Activity Monitoring | Solution for building interactive, real-time dashboards and proactive alerts for monitoring business processes and services. |
| BPA | Business Process Analysis | Solution to perform process modeling & analysis, simulation and publishing of process models. |
| BPEL | Business Process Execution Language | Enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business processes. |
| DIME | Direct Internet Message Encapsulation | A Microsoft-proposed internet standard for the transfer of binary and other encapsulated data over SOAP. |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration | The uses of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications. |
| EAR | Enterprise Application aRchive | A way of creating a portable collection of logically related Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) components. |
| EDA | Event-Driven Architecture | Provides the capabilities to easily create, process, analyze, and manage events with limited coding. |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange | The computer-to-computer exchange of structured information, by agreed message standards, from one computer application to another by electronic means and with a minimum of human intervention. |
| EIS | Enterprise Information System | Any kind of computing system that is of "enterprise class". This means typically offering high quality of service, dealing with large volumes of data - capable of supporting some large organization. |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Bean | the server-side component architecture for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). EJB technology enables rapid and simplified development of distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications based on Java technology. |
| ESB | Enterprise Service Bus | Moves data among multiple endpoints. It uses open standards to connect, transform, and route business documents (as Extensible Markup Language (XML) messages), among disparate applications. |
| J2EE | Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition | A set of coordinated specifications and practices that together enable solutions for developing, deploying, and managing multi-tier server-centric applications. |
| JAAS | Java Authentication and Authorization Service | An API that enables Java applications to access authentication and access control services without being tied to those services. |
| JAR | Java ARchive | A collection of class files packaged with the ZIP file format. |
| JAXB | Java Architecture for Xml Binding | Provides a convenient way to bind an XML schema to a representation in Java code. This makes it easy for you to incorporate XML data and processing functions in applications based on Java technology without having to know much about XML itself. |
| JAX-RPC | Java Api for Xml-based RPC | Used to build Web applications and Web services, incorporating XML-based RPC functionality according to the SOAP 1.1 specification. |
| JCA | Java Connector Architecture | Provides a Java technology solution to the problem of connectivity between the many application servers and today’s enterprise information systems (EIS) |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity | An API for the Java programming language that defines how a client may access a database. |
| JMS | Java Message Service | A messaging standard that allows application components based on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to create, send, receive, and read messages. |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory Interface | A part of the Java platform, providing applications based on Java technology with a unified interface to multiple naming and directory services. |
| JSF | JavaServer Faces | A technology that simplifies building user interfaces for JavaServer applications. |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages | A Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. |
| JSR | Java Specification Request | Formal documents that describe proposed specifications and technologies to be added to the Java platform. |
| JTA | Java Transaction Api | Standard Java interfaces between a transaction manager and the parties involved in a distributed transaction system: the resource manager, the application server, and the transactional applications. |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol | A networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. |
| MIME | Multipurpose 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. |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller | A design pattern that decouples data access and business logic from data presentation and user interaction, and introduces an intermediate component: the Controller. |
| OC4J | Oracle Containers for J2EE | the core J2EE runtime component of Oracle Application Server. |
| OEMS | Oracle Enterprise Messaging Service | A standards based solution built on the Java Message Service (JMS) and the J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) which allows customers to develop and integrate distributed applications. |
| OID | Oracle Internet Directory | An LDAP v3 directory that leverages the scalability, high availability and security features of the Oracle Database. |
| OPMN | Oracle Process Manager and Notification | OPMN is installed and configured with every Oracle Application Server installation type and is essential for running Oracle Application Server. OPMN enables you manage your Oracle Application Server instance in an hierarchical fashion as part of a cluster topology. |
| OWSM | Oracle Web Services Manager | Oracle Web Services Manager is a comprehensive solution for adding policy-driven best practices to all your existing or new Web services and provides the key security and management capabilities necessary to deploy Service-Oriented Architectures across your line-of-business applications. |
| POJO | Plain Old Java Object | The name is used to emphasize that the object in question is not somehow special but an ordinary Java Object, in particular not an EJB |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer | An XML-based protocol for invoking Web services over HTTP. REST is a lighter version of SOAP. |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation | Provides for remote communication between programs written in the Java programming language. |
| SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture | An arcitecture that facilitates the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused. |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer network, normally using HTTP. |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration | A Web-based distributed directory that enables businesses to list themselves on the Internet and discover each other, similar to a traditional phone book’s yellow and white pages. |
| WAR | Web ARchive | A ZIP file used to distribute a set of Java classes |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language | An XML-based language for defining Web services. |
| WSIF | Web Services Invocation Framework | A simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or where the services are provided. |
| WSM | Web Services Manager | A comprehensive solution for adding policy-driven best practices to all your existing or new Web services and provides the key security and management capabilities necessary to deploy Service-Oriented Architectures across your line-of-business applications. |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language | A meta-language that allows you to completely describe a class of other languages, which in turn describe documents. |
| XSD | Xml Schema Definition | An XML document that describes the structure of another XML document. |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language | A family of transformation languages which allows one to describe how files encoded in the XML standard are to be formatted or transformed. |
| XSLT | eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation | Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags |
