Glossary

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Consumer

The component of Adaptive Server Enterprise Web Services that maps Web methods to proxy tables, allowing a client application to invoke the Web method through a SQL select statement.

document/literal

A type of Web method for which communicating parties specify the data being transmitted and formatted according to XML schemas incorporated into the WSDL file.

DTD

Document Type Definition. A DTD is used to define the legal building blocks of an XML document. A DTD can be declared within an XML document or referenced externally.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

Producer

The component of Adaptive Server Enterprise Web Services that enables a client application to access Adaptive Server Enterprise stored procedures and SQL as Web methods.

RPC/encoded

A type of Web method invoked with SOAP messages containing an XML element for each method parameter.

schema

An outline defining the structure, content, and semantics of an XML document.

SDS

Specialty Data Store.

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol.

SQL-XML

An XML representation of SQL data.

XML

Extensible Markup Language, a markup language standardized by W3C.

UDDI

Universal Description Discovery and Integration.

URI

A Uniform Resource Identifier. A URI is a string of characters that identify an Internet Resource. The most common URI is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which identifies an Internet address. A less common URI is the Universal Resource Name (URN).

WSDL

Web Services Description Language.

XML

Extensible Markup Language.

XPath

XML Path Language.

XQL

XML Query Language. XQL was a precursor of XQuery.

Web method

A function described by WSDL and invoked through SOAP message.

Web service

One or more Web methods described by a WSDL file.

Xerces

The Apache open-source XML parser.