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| Term | Meaning | Description |
| Apache Ant | Ant is a Java-based software tool for automating the software build processes. It is similar to make, which automates the compilation of programs whose files are dependent on each other. | |
| Apache Axis | Axis is a SOAP engine for Web Services to exchange messages with SOAP. | |
| Apache Cocoon | Cocoon is a Web application development framework that implements the notion of 'component pipelines', where each component in a pipeline specializes in a particular operation. | |
| Apache Jakarta Tomcat | Tomcat is a Java Servlet container for managing the runtime environment of servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs). | |
| Apache Jakarta Turbine | Turbine is a Java servlet-based framework that allows developers to build secure Web applications. | |
| Apache Jakarta Velocity | Velocity provides an alternative scripting language to JSP for developing Web pages. | |
| Apache Jetspeed | Jetspeed is a framework for building Web portals with portlets. | |
| AppLeS | Application Level Scheduler | AppLeS is an adaptive application level scheduling system in which schedules are generated based on application specific information. |
| ASAP | Asynchronous Service Access Protocol | ASAP is a protocol for asynchronous communications between clients and services. |
| Autonomic Computing | Autonomic computing refers to an infrastructure that automatically adapts to meet the demands of the applications that are running in it. Such a system has the features of self-optimisation, self-protection, self-healing, self-configuration. | |
| BPEL4WS | Business Process Execution Language for Web Services | Based on XLANG and WSFL, BPEL4WS is both a block-structured and a graph based workflow language for Web services composition. |
| BPML | Business Process Modelling Language | BPML is a meta-language for modelling business processes. |
| Block Structured Flow Language | Block Structured Flow Language | BSFL specifies a predefined order in executing Web services. |
| CA | Certification Authority | A CA is an authority that issues and manages security credentials and public keys for secure communications. |
| CCA | Common Component Architecture | CCA is a component model for high performance computing applications. |
| Check-pointing | Check-pointing is the means of saving a executing program's state so that in case of failure it may be restarted at the last saved check point. | |
| CIM | Common Information Model | CIM provides a common definition so that vendors can exchange management information between systems throughout a network environment. |
| ClassAd | A ClassAd is a descriptive language used by Condor for matching resources. | |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture | CORBA is a middleware technology for building distributed client/server applications in which clients and CORBA objects are independent of location, platform, and programming language. |
| Condor | Condor is a resource management and job scheduling system. | |
| Condor-G | Condor-G is a system that can submit Condor jobs to a Globus environment. | |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System | CVS is a version control system. |
| DAML | DARPA Agent Markup Language | Based on RDF, DAML is an XML-based ontology language developed for the semantic Web. |
| DAML+OIL | DAML+OIL is an ontology language combining the features of DAML and OIL. | |
| DAML-S | DAML-S is both a language and an ontology for annotating Web services with semantic capabilities. | |
| DCE RPC | Distributed Computing Environment RPC | DCE RPC is an implementation of RPC from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model | DCOM is a middleware technology for building Windows-based distributed client/server applications in which clients and DCOM components are independent of location and programming language. |
| Deadline Constraint Scheduling | Deadline constraint scheduling suspends or terminates running jobs at a certain time. | |
| Dedicated Scheduling | Dedicated scheduling means that jobs scheduled to dedicated resources cannot be pre-empted. | |
| DER | Distinguished Encoding Rules | DER is a binary representation of an X.509 digital certificate. |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard | DES is a symmetric-key method for data encryption. |
| DL | Description Logic | DL is a formal method for knowledge representation. |
| DMTF | Distributed Management Task Force | The DMTF is standards body for enterprise and Internet technologies. |
| ECS | Element Construction Set | ECS is a Java API for generating elements for various markup languages including HTML 4.0 and XML. |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans | EJB are a server-side technology in the J2EE framework. |
| FaCT | Fast Classification of Terminologies | FaCT is a reasoning system that uses a DL classifier. |
| Exclusive Scheduling | >Exclusive scheduling gives a job exclusive use of the host that it executes on. | |
| Fair Share Scheduling | Fair share scheduling divides the processing resources among users and groups to provide fair access to resources. A fair share policy can be configured at either the queue, or host level. | |