Service Container Glossary

Service Container engines for business process service, timed events, and EAServer messaging.

A term coined by Gartner, is the concept of providing real-time access to critical business performance indicators with the goal of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. Definition from www.businessactivitymonitoring.com.

See "Business Activity Monitoring: The Promise and Reality" D. McCoy, July 2001, www.gartner.com, ID# COM-13-9992 for more information.

Decodes data into an intelligible form for authorized users. Can be applied in a business process service. See also Encryption.

Dynamic-link library.

Encodes data into an unintelligible form to anyone other than authorized users. Can be applied in a business process service. See also Decryption.

A physical instance or implementation of a particular resource type. For example, a database endpoint specifies a particular database instance used in WorkSpace through a connection profile. The endpoint for a Java service is the Java source file that implements that service. Other examples are Java classes, stored procedures, and Web services.

The implementation of mirrored servers that automatically switch to a clone upon the failure or abnormal termination of the engine. After being configured, failover happens without human intervention.

Java Database Connectivity. JDBC is a Java API that enables Java programs to execute SQL statements. JDBC makes it possible to write a single database application that can run on different platforms and interact with different DBMSs.

See http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/ for more information.

A port is a network address at which specific operations are available. A port associates operations with specific endpoints.

The Runtime Management Console is a Web-based tool that contains a number of consoles for business activity monitoring and service development administration:

• Alert Console -- enables the set up of channels, targets, and subscriptions for alert notification.

• BAM Dashboard -- enables the design and display of customized charts, graphs, and tables of analytic objects. You can set up dashboards to automatically update the data in real-time, share them with other authorized users, or drill down into the details of an analytic object by opening the Monitor Console.

• Monitor Console -- provides an interactive, tabular view of the bound analytic models. You can drill down into an analytic object in a number of ways, such as viewing an attachment associated with an analytic object or display a list of correlated analytic objects from another analytic model.

• Services Console -- provides remote access to service operation command and control.

• Security Console -- enables the setup of security profiles to use encryption and decryption operations within a business process service.

A secure data service that supports encryption and decryption in a business process service using the Sybase Common Services infrastructure.

Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) is a standard protocol for Web-accessible servers. UDDI servers store information about the deployed services and APIs made available by the businesses that are registered with a UDDI server. See also UDDI Registries.

UDDI Registries contain public and private Web services.

Web Services Description Language. A general purpose XML language for describing interface, protocol bindings, and deployment details of network services. As an XML-formatted language, WSDL is used to describe the capabilities of a Web service as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages. The WSDL details the available methods and parameters types as well as the actual SOAP endpoint for a service.

See http://www.w3.org for more information.