Glossary of Terms - Page 6

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W3 - http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

WAI - (web accessibility initiative) Guidelines put in place to highlight and improve the difficulties experienced by many web users. The guidelines can be accessed at

WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) - WAMP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, MySQL and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known LAMP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.

WAP - (Wireless Application Protocol) An open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services instantly.

Web host - The server where your web site's html files, graphics, etc. reside. Lunarpages is a web hosting company. Our servers host customer's web sites and files.

Web Mail - email that can be accessed via a browser based email service.

Web services - Web services are simple, self contained applications which perform functions, from simple requests to complicated business processes. The "web services" model uses WSDL, UDDI and SOAP /XMLP. A WSDL description is retrieved from the UDDI directory. WSDL descriptions allow the software systems of one business to extend to use those of the other directly. The services are invoked over the World Wide Web using the SOAP /XMLP protocol. Each of the components are XML based. Where two agencies know about each other's web services they can link their SOAP /XMLP interfaces - provided all security concerns are managed appropriately. It is only where services are going to have unknown users that they need to be formally described by a language such as WSDL and entered into a directory such as UDDI.

web.xml - The web.xml file is used by the J2EE application server during deployment of a web module. It describes the web components used by that web module, environment variables, and security requirements. This information is stored as / WEB - INF /web.xml. For example, the default application's deployment descriptor might be stored as /usr/jrun/servers/default/delt-app/ WEB - INF /web.xml. You must add a web.xml deployment descriptor to any WAR file you want to deploy as a web application. You can then add your web module to a J2EE application, which has its own deployment descriptor (application.xml) in addition to the web module's web.xml.

Webalizer - Name of web stats program offered with most web hosting plans using the Cpanel user interface.

Webapps - structured forms that send pre-formatted instant messages to users or a process on a server. They are designed to interact with databases to collect, store, organize and disseminate information, creating powerful tools for use in consistent information management. webApps provide (a) support of IE compatible languages (JavaScript, Flash and ActiveX, etc.), (b) synchronized Intranet, Extranet and Internet web applications, (c) secure unified login and presence management across all system layers, and (d) compatible with most popular database engines (SQL, Access, Sybase, etc.)

WebDAV - is the abbreviation for Web-Distributing, Authoring and Versioning. It describes a technique by which the editing of webpages can be simplified. WebDAV consists of HTTP extensions which specify a standard for the exchange of data between web authoring tools and web servers. With WebDAV internet documents can be read and created as local data.

Web-inf - The directory containing the web-apps classes, jars and configuration files.

Web space - An amount of data storage space used to host websites and files on the Internet, usually measured in Megabytes (MB).

whois - Whois is a term referring to a domain name search or look-up feature for a database - typically for Top-Level Domain name registries. Information such as name availability can be found through a query or search using a whois protocol (standard). Most Top-Level Domain registries maintain their own whois database containing domain name contact information.

Windows Media - A media format developed by Microsoft for streaming and playing back media files.

WYSIWYG - (What You See Is What You Get) A graphical interface to a process which shows how the end-result will look as it is being produced, eg a WYSIWYG HTML editor generates HTML markup but displays the document as if viewed with a Web browser.

XFORMS - XForms is an XML format for the specification of user interfaces, specifically web forms. XForms was designed to be the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms, but is generic enough that it can also be used in a standalone manner to describe any user interface, and even perform simple and common data manipulation tasks.

XHTML - The next generation of HTML and is a hybrid between HTML and XML. XML was designed to describe data. HTML was designed to display data. XHTML is much stricter than HTML. Not all browers support XML so XHTML provides an intermediary soluton and can be interpreted by XML and HTML browsers. For further information see: http://www.w3c.org/MarkUp/

XML - Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.

XSLT - (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) A language used to transform XML documents into other documents. In Second Site, XSLT is used to transform XML documents into HTML tags. The XSLT standard is administered by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Zip - To zip a file is to compress it into an archive so that it occupies less disk space.