List of Acronyms
3NF: third normal form
ACE: access control entry
ACL: access control list
ADDM: Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
ADT: abstract data type
ASM: Automatic Storage Management
AWR: Automatic Workload Repository
B2B: Business-to-Business
B2C: Business-to-Consumer
BLOB: Binary Large Object
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining
CDATA: character data
CDS: Cell Directory Services
CLOB: Character Large Object
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker API
CORE: Common Oracle Runtime Environment
CSS: Cluster Synchronization Services
CVU: Cluster Verification Utility
CWM: Common Warehouse Metadata
DAD: Database Access Descriptor
DBA: database administrator
DBPITR: database point-in-time recovery
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment
DDL LCR: DDL logical change record
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DIT: directory information tree
DN: distinguished name
DNS: Domain Name System
DOM: Document Object Model
DTD: Document Type Definition
DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing
EJB: Enterprise JavaBean
EMCA: Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant
EVM: Event Manager
EVMD: Event Manager Daemon
FAN: Fast Application Notification
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
GCS: Global Cache Service
GCS: Global Cache Service
GDS: Global Directory Service
GES: Global Enqueue Service
GIS: geographic information system
GPFS: General Parallel File System
GSD: Global Services Daemon
GV$: global dynamic performance views
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing
HARD: Oracle Hardware Assisted Resilient Data
HMP: Hyper Messaging Protocol
IDE: Integrated Development Environment
IIOP: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IPC: Inter-Process Communication
J2EE: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAXP: Java API for XML Processing
JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
JDK: Java Developer's Kit
JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface
JRE: Java Runtime Environment
JSP: JavaServer Pages
JSR: Java Specification Request
JVM: Java Virtual Machine
KWIC: Key Word in Context
LCR: logical change record
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF: LDAP Data Interchange Format
LGWR: log writer process
LMD: Global Enqueue Service Daemon
LMON: Global Enqueue Service Monitor
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
MBR: Master Boot Record
MBR: minimum bounding rectangle
MTTR: Mean Time To Recover
MTTR: mean time to recover
NAS: Network Attached Storage
NI: Network Interface
NIC: Network Interface Card
NIS: Network Information Service
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
NPI: Network Program Interface
NS: Network Session
NTP: Network Time Protocol
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System
OCI: Oracle Call Interface
OCR: Oracle Cluster Registry
OCT: Ordered Collection in Tables
OIFCFG: Oracle Interface Configuration Tool
OLAP: online analytical processing
OLM: Object Link Manager
OLTP: online transaction processing
OMF: Oracle Managed Files
ONS: Oracle Notification Services
OPI: Oracle Program Interface
ORB: Object Request Broker
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection
OUI: Oracle Universal Installer
PCDATA: Parsed Character Data
PGA: program global area
PKI: public key infrastructure
RAC: Real Application Clusters
RDBMS: Relational Database Management System
RDN: relative distinguished name
RMAN: Recovery Manager
SAX: Simple API for XML
SCN: system change number
SDU: session data unit
SGA: System Global Area
SGA: system global area
SGML: Structured Generalized Markup Language
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
SID: Oracle System Identifier
SID: system identifier
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SQL: Structured Query Language
SRVCTL: Server Control
SSH: Secure Shell
SSI: Server-Side Include
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
SSO: single sign-on
STS: SQL Tuning Set
TAF: Transparent Application Failover
TAF: transparent application failover
TNS: Transparent Network Substrate
TSPITR: tablespace point-in-time recovery
TTC: Two-Task Common
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UIX: User Interface XML
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
WG: Working Group
WSDL: Web Services Description Language
XDK: Oracle XML Developer's Kit
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XSL: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSLFO: eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Object
XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation
XSU: XML SQL Utility
XVM: XSLT Virtual Machine
