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A

Adapter, Agile Development, Annotation, Application Integration, Asynchronous Communication, Asynchronous Messaging, Audit Trail

B

BPM – Business Process Management, BPMN – Business Process Management Notation,
BPEL – Business Process Execution Language , Bus, Business Logic, Business Process, Business Process Modeling

C

Calculated Destinations, Claim, Claim Confirmation, Certificate Authority (CA), Confidentiality, Cloud Computing, Cluster, COBIT, Compensation, Component, JBI Component, Compound Application, Composite Application, Compound Service, Consumer, CDI - Context and Dependency Injection,   
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture, Cryptography

D

Deployment Descriptor, Delivery Assurance, Dependency Injection, Diffie-Hellman Algorithm, Digest, Digital Signature, Digital Certificates, Digital Time-Stamping, Digital Signature, DWR - Direct Web Remoting, Dispatch Service, Domain, Domain Name System - DNS   
 

E   

EAI – Enterprise Application Integration, ebXML – Electronic Business using Extensible Markup Language, EIS – Enterprise Information System, EDA - Event-Driven Architecture, EDI – Electronic Data Exchange, EPC - Event-Driven Process Chain, End-To-End Message Level Security, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Information System (EIS), Elemental Service, Endpoint, ESB - Enterprise Service Bus, Event   
 

F   

Facade    , Four+ Views Architecture   
 

G   

Governance, Governance Model, Grid Computing, Groove   
 

H

Heartbeats, Network and Failure Determination, High Availability,
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol: a ‘binding Protocol, Hub and spoke     Hypervizor, Hybrid Cloud   
 

I    

Idempotence, Integration, Integration Patterns, Interface, Interoperability,
Inter-Process Communication Protocols, ITU-T
 

J    

JCA    , JAAS - Authentication and Authorization Service, JAXB - Java Architecture for XML Binding, JAXM – Java APIs for XML Messaging, JAXP – Java APIs for XML Processing    JAXR – Java API for XML Registries, JAX-RS – Java API for REST Web Services , JAX-WS - Java API for XML-Based Web services, JCA – Java Connector Architecture, JCE – Java Cryptology Extension, JBI - Java Business Integration, JBI Bus, JDBC, JPA - Java Persistence API, JMS – Java Message Service, JMS BC - JMS Binding Component, JMSJCA, JMX – Java Management Extension, JNDI – Java Naming and Directory Interface JSON – JavaScript Object Notation, JTA – Java Transactions API, JTS – Java Transaction Service, Java, JavaScript, Java Server Faces   

K   

Kerberos, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Key Expiry,
KVM – Kernel-Based Virtual Machine   

L

LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Loose Coupling, Logging   
 

 

M

MDA – Model-Driven Architecture, MDD – Model-Driven Development,
MDM – Master Data Management, MDSD – Model Driven Software Development, MOM - Message-Oriented Middleware, MTOM – Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism,Message Exchange Pattern (MEP), Maintainability, Message, Message Confidentiality, Message Integrity, Message Persistence, Messaging, Messaging Protocols, Meta Model, Model, Modulo Arithmetics, Multicasting, MVC - Model-View-Controller

 

N

NMR - Normalized Message Router, Networks, Network Latency, Non-Repudiation, Normalized Messages

 

O

OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.    ObSSCoockie, OTS - Object Transaction Service, Orchestration, Open Source    Open ESB, Open MQ, OMG - Object Management Group, One-way Message Exchange   

 

P   

PCI – Payment Card Industry Security Standards, PKCS – Public Key Cryptology Standards, PKIX, Patterns, Performance, Persistence, Pluggable Authentication Modules- PAM, Profile, 
Proof-of-Possession, Provider-Based Web Service Development, Process Modeling, Proxy Service, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Publish-Subscribe, Point-to-Point Messaging, Proxy Service   

 

Q

QName, Quality Assurance, QoS - Quality of Service

 

R   

RMI – Remote Method Invocation, RPC - Remote Procedure Call, RSA Algorithm,
RUP - Rational Unified Process, Registry, Reliability, Reliable Messaging, Request-Reply, 
Request-Callback, Request-Response, Repository, REST – Representation State Transfer, Reusability   

S       

SAAJ – SOAP API with Attachment for Java, SEI – Service Endpoint Interface,
SEI-Based Web Service Development, SSL – Secure Sockets Layer, Security Token, Scalability, Security, SAML - Security Assertion Markup Language, Security and SOA, Security Domain, Security Model, Security Policy, Security Realm, Security Service, Serviceability, Service, 
Service Assembly, Service Client, SCA - Service Component Architecture, Service Contract, 
Service Design Strategy, SE - Service Engine, Service Granularity, Service Implementation, 
Services Registry, Service Repository, SU - Service Unit,  Servlets, Signed Security Token, SharePoint, SOA – Service-Oriented Architecture, SOA Patterns, SOA Security, 
SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol, Single-Entity View, Shared Service, 
SLA – Service Level Agreement, Standards, Stakeholders, StAX, Synchronous Communication, Synchronous Messaging   
 

 

T

TCP/IP, Threads, Transactions, Transaction Rollback, Transaction Committal,    Transactional Message, Trust, TSL – Transport Layer Security, Tuxedo   
 

 

U    

UDDI - Universal Description,  Discovery and Integration, 
UDP - User Datagram Protocol, UML – Unified Modeling Language   
 

 

V   

Virtualization, VMWare   
 

 

W   

WC, WSDL , WSIF, WSIT, WSEE, Web , Waterfall Development Method, 
Web Services, Windows Communications Framework, Workflow, WS-* , WS-Addressing, WS-AtomicTransaction, WS-AttachmentsProfile, WS-BaseNotification, WS-BrokeredNotification, WS-BusinessActivity, WS-Coordination, WS-DistributedManagement, WS-Manageability, WS-Manageability – Presentation, WS-Manageability -- Concepts, WS-Federation, 
WS-Federation Language, WS-Federation, WS-MetadataExchange, WS-MTOMPolicy, WS-Notification with Publish-Subscribe, WS-Policy, WS-PolicyAssertions, 
WS-PolicyAssertions Language, WS-PolicyAttachment, WS-PolicyFramework, WS-Provisioning, WS-ResourceFramework, WS-ResourceTransfer, WS-ReliableMessaging (WS-RM), WS-ReliableMessagingPolicyAssertion, WS-SecureConversation, 
WSDL-S - Web Services Semantics, WS-SecureConversation Language, WS-Security, WS-Security Addendum, WS-SecurityKerberosBinding, WS-SecurityPolicy, 
WS-SecurityPolicy Language, WS-Topics, WS-Trust, WSIT – Web Service Interoperability Technologies

 

X    

XA, XKMS – XML Key Management Specifications, XML, XML Schema, XML Canonicalization, XML Signature, XML Encryption, X/Open, XPDL – XML Process Definition Language, XPath