Glossary of Terms

Administrator - The person who configures and administers the Active Web Server.

Application Developer - The person who writes, builds and enhances Active Web applications.

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A specification for transmitting characters as single bytes.

Browse - Run the Active Web Script debugger without watching for Break Points. (see Play)

CGI - Common Gateway Interface. The specification used between a Web server and an executable program that allows the program to provide the Web page contents.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheet. The specification, which is called (or hosted) by an HTML document that determines how each tag listed in it is to be interpreted by any browser in terms of formatting of the document.

CSV - Comma Separated Variables. A specification that defines how a table of data is written as a text file. Each row is one line of the csv file and the columns in each row are separated by commas.

Debugger - The Active Web Script debug client software that is run on a Windows machine.

Debug Server - That part of the Active Web Server which has been explicitly enabled (at installation or subsequently) for debugging to take place.

End-user - The person who uses the output from an Active Web applications.

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language. The language used to define Web pages that are to be displayed in a Web Browser.

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The protocol used to make requests and receive responses from a web server.

JavaScript - A 'standard' scripting language used in both web browsers and web servers. See also Server-side Scripting Language.

JDBC - Java Database Connectivity. A client/server SQL access method available from most database vendors. The vendor supplies a set of Java classes that need to be made available to the Active Web servlet.

Play - Run the Active Web Script Debugger while watching for Break Points. (see also Browse)

Scripting language - See JavaScript and Server-side Scripting language.

Server-side Scripting language - A sub-set of the ECMA Script language used only at the server. The Active Web server includes a Java interpreter for this script language.

Servlet - A Java class that adheres to the JavaSoft Servlet specification.

SQL - Structured Query Language. A standard database query language supported by all databases.

Style Sheet - A central location for all the formatting styles used in every HTML and XML document which links to it. It is written to the Cascading Style Sheets specification.

URL - Universal Resource Locator. The string used to define a resource (usually a Web page) available from a network Web server.

UTF8 - A specification for transmitting characters as multi bytes.

XML - eXtensible Markup Language. A specification that identifies the layout and structure of a text document.

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