DNAOS Quick Glossary

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

SCALABILITY
the ability to easily scale processing environments to meet rapidly growing demand and requirements.

SCALING
the process of growing and developing distributed applications, expanding and maximizing their lifecycles, for the least possible amount of work, money, delays, and trouble, in trying to meet rapidly growing demand and requirements.

SCHEDULE
Period-defining hierarchical Relation, typically From an Owner To a Behavior; DNAOS time-interval Archetype class of resources supporting advanced scheduling; most transaction documents, like invoices and timesheets are also schedule or time-interval documents, reporting worked done for a period, for a party .

SCHEDULING
coordinating with schedule(s)

SECTION
a DNAOS recursive content structure tag; common section classes include volume, chapter, page, group and many others; custom ones can be added as required.

SECURITY
of the many dimensions and aspects of security, DNAOS security services support: authentication, authorization, encryption, and entitlement, including membership, rights and privileges.

SENDMAIL
a DNAOS resource for group or mass email, holding the associated sender, receiver (to, cc, bcc) addresses, subject, message, and attachments.

SEPARATION OF CONCERNS
an architectural approach providing each contributing specialist with an optimal context for his contribution, by separating processes and tools according to professional concerns; for example, if a programmer, a graphic artist, an author, a layout specialist contribute to building a page or a document, each should have a context optimal for the task at hand but without interfering on others work

SERVICE
a computing operation or process provided for specific purpose(s) to a relatively general audience; the distributed computing industry has recently adopted a service oriented architecture (SOA) as an optimal interconnection and exchange approach to distributed application design, yet services have been around for some time, they also take many forms and, indeed, they provide a logical, simple approach to federate computer farms into efficient collaborative platforms.

SERVICE BUS
a service platform resulting from service oriented design and supporting a service oriented architecture (SOA).

SERVICE PLATFORM
typically built from a service bus, the service platform also provides many support services and tools for the environment, the applications, the developers, the operators, the administrators, etc.

SESSION
DNAOS support and manage sessions of various types, corresponding to the supported standard interfaces (ex: HTTP, SOA); DNAOS add entitlement, validation, control, monitor, record, statistics, and automated sessions to each standard's session properties

SOA
acronym for Service Oriented Architecture, a distributed environment interconnection standard based on providing and using web services; SOA is also associated with SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and BPEL standards.

SOLUTION
a integrated combination of hardware, software, and services for resolving real-life computing problems, issues, and applications.

SPECIAL
a scheduled bundle with a discount.

SQL
structured query language; a relational data-based query language.

STANDARDS
Standards specify compatibility requirements. DNAOS supported industry standards include: XSLT, XSL, XQuery, XPath, XML, xhtml, XForms, XCal, WSDL, VOIP, UML, UDDI, SSL, SSH, SQL, SOAP, SOA, SMTP, RSS, RMI, REST, RDF, POP, PDF, LDAP, IMAP, JSR-168, JSON, JSP, JMS, JINI, JDBC, JavaScript(ECMA), JavaSpaces, JavaMail, Java, J2EE, ISO8601, HTTP, HTML, CSS, BPEL, ATOM, Ajax, .NET.

STATISTICS
DNAOS workflow management service can provide complete usage statistics for each session, user, application.

STREAM
a continuous data flow; data streams are typically XML or media (ex: music, video); the streaming process is similar for the various streams as data is processed as it streams through network and processing pipelines; the main difference is in the type of processing that is applied; see also XML Streaming.

STREAMING
the process of generating data streams and processing them in dynamic pipelines, without waiting for the stream to end or arrive completely; see also XML Streaming.

STYLESHEET
a declarative program to organize, layout, transform, present information.

SUBSCRIPTION
registered members can suscribe to activities including eNewsletters and email notifications.

SYSTEM
a compound hardware and software component, or a DNAOS archetype for application resources.