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Glossary/Acronyms ACID ACK AsyncRep API BPEL CA CGI CLI CLV CSR CSS CMO COM CORBA DBA DCOM DD DDL DMZ DNS DoS DSA DTD EAR EE EJB FIFO FMW GMD GUI HTML HTTP IIOP IIS Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (for DB transactions) acknowledgement-based Asynchronous HTTP Session Replication Application programming interface Business Process Execution Language Certificate Authority (issues SSL certificates) Common Gateway Interface Command-line interface (as opposed to GUI) Call-level interface (part of JDBC) Certificate Lookup and Validation Certificate Signing Request Common Security Services Current Management Object (part of WLST) Component Object Model (see also DCOM and jCOM) Common Object Request Broker Architecture Database administrator Distributed COM deployment descriptor Data Definition Language (part of SQL) Demilitarized Zone (network between firewalls) domain name server denial of service Digital Signature Algorithm document type definition Enterprise Archive Enterprise Edition (as opposed to Standard Edition [SE]) Enterprise JavaBeans First in, first out (queuing) Fusion Middleware guaranteed message delivery Graphical user interface (as opposed to CLI) Hypertext Markup Language Hypertext Transfer Protocol Internet Inter-ORB Protocol Internet Information Server
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J2SDK JAAS JACC JAR Java EE Java SE 6 JAX-WS JAZN JCA JCE jCOM JDBC JDK JKS JMS JMX JNDI JPA JPS JRF JRMP JSSE JSP JSR JTA JVM JWS LDAP LDIF LVC MIME MSI NES NIC O/R OAAM

Java 2 SDK Standard Edition Java Authentication and Authorization Service Java Authorization Contract for Containers Java Archive Java Platform Enterprise Edition Java Platform Standard Edition 6 Java API for XML-Based Web Services Java AuthoriZatioN Java EE Connector Architecture Java Cryptography Extensions WLS Java-to-COM bridge Java Database Connectivity Java Development Kit Java KeyStore Java Message Service Java Management Extensions Java Naming and Directory Interface Java Persistence API Java Platform Security Java Required Files (also known as Portability Layer [PL]; Oracle Web services stack for SOA and WebCenter) Java Remote Method Protocol Java Secure Socket Extensions JavaServer Pages Java Specification Request Java Transaction API Java Virtual Machine Java Web Service Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP Data Interchange Format (readable text) Live Virtual Class Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Managed Server Independence Netscape Enterprise Server Network Interface Card (usually an Ethernet adapter) object-relational Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

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OASIS ODBC OHS OID OOTB OPMN OPSS ORB OS OTN PAM PKI PTP QoS RAC RAR RBAC RCU RMAN RMI RSH SAF SAML SDK SHA SLA SNMP SOA SOAP SQL SSH SSL SSPI T3

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Open Database Connectivity Oracle HTTP Server Oracle Internet Directory Out Of The Box (by default; without modification) Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server Oracle Platform Security Services Object Request Broker Operating system (examples: Windows, Linux) Oracle Technology Network Pluggable Authentication Module Public Key Infrastructure Point To Point Quality of Service Real Application Clusters (for multihost databases) Resource Adapter Archive Role-Based Access Control (part of JPS) Repository Creation Utility Recovery Manager (for the database) Remote Method Invocation Remote Shell (as opposed to SSH) store-and-forward Security Assertion Markup Language Software development kit (programming tools) Secure Hash Algorithm service-level agreements Simple Network Management Protocol Service-Oriented Architecture Simple Object Access Protocol Structured Query Language Secure Shell (as opposed to RSH) Secure Sockets Layer Security Services Provider Interface An optimized, proprietary communications protocol used to transport data between WebLogic Server and other Java programs, including clients and other WebLogic Servers. T3 protocol using SSL

T3S

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TAR TCP TLS TTL URL VM WAN WAR WLDF WLS WLST WSIT XA XACML XML

Tape Archive Transmission Control Protocol Transport Layer Security time-to-live Uniform Resource Locator Virtual Machine Wide Area Network Web Archive WebLogic Diagnostics Framework WebLogic Server WebLogic Scripting Tool Web Services Interoperability Technologies X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing (part of two-phase commit) eXtensible Access Control Markup Language Extensible Markup Language

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