• Application Progrmmable Interface [API] Programmable interface exposed by an application that allows other components and systems to communicate with it

• Concurrent Versioning System [CVS] (Open Source) version control system that allows for concurrent updates of the same files by multiple users.

• Graphical User Interface [GUI] The graphical software interface by which a user interacts with an application. GUIs are typically implemented as web pages, or client side software - so called thick clients.

• JavaDoc API documentation generated from Java Source code (generally) in HTML format. Provides a convenient way to view Java class/interface methods, properties and relationships.

• Rational Unified Process [RUP] Software Engineering Process initially developed by Rational (now part of IBM). The process centres around use-cases as a way of capturing requirements that drive the analysis and design models.

• Software Requirements Specification [SRS] RUP artefact that encapsulates use-cases and the requirements therin. Typically this is a living document that contains the detailed requirements specified by the customer documented by the business analyst.

• Use-case Use cases allow the description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful

• XML Metatdata Interchange [XMI] An XML format storing and exchanging UML model information
• XSL:FO [XSL:FO] eXtensible Stylesheet Languague (XSL) Formatting Objects - part of the XSL family used to provide detailed markup to allow FO processors to render output in a consitent fashion irrespective of format (e.g. output formats can be PDF, RTF etc.)
• eXtensible Markup Language [XML] The Extensible Markup Language ( XML ) is a general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications. XML languages or 'dialects' may be designed by anyone and may be processed by conforming software. XML is also designed to be reasonably human-legible, and to this end, terseness was not considered essential in its structure.
• eXtensible Stylesheet Languague (XSL) Transforms [XSLT] Used to manipulate (map) XML source documents into a varierty of output formats. Typical output formats include XML , XHTML, HTML and XSL:FO.
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