Web Application Development Glossary

Deployment is the process of transferring application metadata from a design-time environment to a runtime environment.

Design time encompasses a series of activities, such as defining rules, service interaction, schemas, and transformations of schemas. These activities provide the logical foundation of a business process project.

EJB is a component architecture for the development and deployment of object-oriented, distributed, transactional, enterprise-level applications. This architecture separates low-level details from business logic. For more information, see the EJB Web site.

An object oriented programming language and portable runtime environment specification, Java is widely used in distributed computing and has spawned several standard technologies such as:

• Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)

• Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

• Java Message Service (JMS)

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

Sybase WorkSpace supports running Java code as a service. For more information on Java and related standards, see the Java Web site.

Properties are the characteristics of an object or the attributes associated with a data structure.

Runtime is the phase in which a software product is actively processing. Before a software product can be in a runtime state, it must contain the necessary configuration and metadata, which are set up during design time.

Services are self-describing application modules that provide access to business logic and data in networked software components. All endpoints are modeled as services by using WSDL documents that contain a set of operations and can be used in a business process.

Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is a lightweight XML-based communication protocol used to encode the information in Web service request and response messages before sending them over a network. SOAP messages are independent of any operating system or protocol and may be transported using a variety of Internet protocols, including SMTP, MIME, and HTTP. For additional information, see http://www.w3.org.

A Web service is a software resource that initiates and responds to service requests. A Web service can be discovered and run over the Internet using agreed-upon standards such as XML, SOAP, and WSDL.

A workspace folder contains a collection of projects that can be imported into the WorkSpace Navigator. The projects are located in a \workspace folder on the hard drive.