Glossary

3270

Once rampant family of IBM terminal offerings, where the term now refers to the data stream still widely used for mainframe application access.

5250

IBM terminal family for AS/400 systems, where the term now refers to the data stream still widely used for iSeries application access.

ActiveX

Microsoft’s strategic object-oriented technology, which applies to COM and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies.

Apache

Doyen of the open-source movement that is particularly active and germane in the areas of XML, Java, and Web server technology.

Applet

Small, mini-applications that run within a Web browser or an applet viewer and have strictly limited access to host resources, in particular any kinds of files.

Application Server

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