Advanced JAVA Networking

Appendix . Glossary

ActiveWeb

Active Software's publish/subscribe system for corporate intranet information publishing.

ActiveX

Proprietary Microsoft component model for the Internet.

AWT

Abstract Window Toolkit. One of the windowing environments supplied as part of the core Java classes, uses peer components of the OS.

Bytecode

The binary language produced by the Java compiler and used as the native binary language for the Java Virtual Machine.

C++

Compiled, object-oriented programming language.

Callback

Saving a method with an object in the hopes that the function will be invoked, or "called back," at a later time.

CGI

Common Gateway Interface. The original way of creating executable content on the server side of an HTTP connection. Seeservelt.

Client

Program ...