APPENDIX GAcronyms

If you read any kind of technical document these days, you’ll notice that it is literally filled with abbreviations and acronyms. Although many of them will sound familiar, and might even be used daily in “casual computer conversation,” it’s still amazing just how many of these things do creep into technical documentation. And for some, they have become so commonplace that we don’t even realize that they are in fact an acronym. To clarify this point, and to give a reference of all these abbreviations used in this book, this list has been compiled.

3DES

Triple DES (Data Encryption Standard—168-bit)

AD4J

Advanced Diagnostics For Java

ADDM

Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor

AIX

Advanced IBM UNIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) ...

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