Ours is an industry packed with abbreviations, acronyms and unusual product names. The glossary below explains most of the ones relevant to us.
Ant
A Java-based build tool
Beehive
A Java visual object model which makes it faster & easier to develop Java EE-based applications.
CA Wily Customer Experience Manager (CEM)
Customer Experience Manager (CEM)
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
JBoss (now called WildFly)
Lucene
A Java text search-engine library.
Maven
A Java project management & comprehension tool).
Oracle Application Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM)
Oracle Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) suite
Rational Rose
An object-oriented unified modelling language
SDLC
The software development lifecycle
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Terracotta
Software which manages the scalability, availability & performance of real-time ‘big data’ applications.
Tomcat
A web container for serving servlets & JSP