Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services

Glossary

ActiveX controls—http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751972(VS.85).aspx

AJAX—See Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Anonymous Class—A temporary class that has no name (i.e., identifier). Anonymous classes are defined and instantiated through in-line expressions with the new operator.

Anonymous Method—A convention found in languages like C#, JavaScript, and PHP where a block of code (i.e., function, method) can be passed into a method as a parameter. Unlike traditional methods, these do not have names.

A.k.a. anonymous function

Apache Software Foundation Projects—

ASCII—The American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII ...