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Terms Used in this Guide

The following list contains definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations that are used in this guide:

• CA International Common Communications Interface (CAICCI)

  CAICCI offers a simple yet flexible approach enabling the CA products to communicate with one another. This facility provides a layer that isolates the application software from the specifics of the communications environment.

• Distributed Repository Access System (DRAS)

  DRAS is the Output Management component that makes requests to the Host Output Management product (CA View, CA Bundl, or CA Dispatch). DRAS has a client and server component. The client runs on the same platform as the OM Web Servicesand the server runs on the mainframe.

• Host Output Management product

  Host Output Management product refers to the CA OM mainframe products as a group rather than individually. These products are CA View, CA Dispatch and CA Bundl.

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

  HTTP, an application protocol running on top of the TCP/IP protocol suite, is a set of rules for transferring files. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) encrypts and decrypts requests.

• Java Archive (JAR)

  A JAR file allows multiple files to be placed into a single archive file. (The JAR files are similar in the concept to .ZIP files, except they are a standard file format for holding Java file types.) A JAR file usually contains the class files and auxiliary resources that are associated with applets and applications.

• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  SOAP is an industry standard from the World Wide Web Consortium organization (W3C) (WWW.W3 .ORG). SOAP is an XML-based language that provides a way for two or more applications to communicate together over the Internet. SOAP is used to encode data that is sent between two applications. All data that are sent between the OM Web Services and client programs is formatted as SOAP messages.

• Web Application Archive (WAR)

  A Web application can be packaged and run on another server when it is in a WAR. In addition to web components, a WAR usually contains other files including the following:

  • Server-side utility classes (database beans, shopping carts, and so on) often conform to the JavaBeans component architecture.
  • Static Web content (HTML, image, and sound files, and so on)
  • The Client-side classes (applets and utility classes)
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

  WSDL is an industry standard from the W3C (WWW.W3.ORG). WSDL is an XML-based language that defines web services capabilities. It defines Web service requests and the details of each request’s input and output parameters. Most tools that create a client access to Web Services do so using the WSDL for the Web Service.

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)

  XML is an industry standard from the W3C (WWW.W3.ORG). XML, a markup language that is designed to describe data, is similar in format to HTML, rather than being made up of a fixed set of predefined tags, XML allows the developer to design their own. SOAP and WSDL are the XML languages. The OM Web Services return data in XML syntax.