Glossary of Terms

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
Apache Project
Beehive
A Java visual object model which makes it faster & easier to develop Java EE-based applications.
CA Wily APM
CA Wily Customer Experience Manager (CEM)
CA Wily Introscope
Customer Experience Manager (CEM)
Django
Drools
Enterprise architecture
Enterprise systems
Hibernate
IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD)
Introscope
Java ME
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
Java SE
Java Server Faces
JBoss (now called WildFly)
jBPM
JGroups
JMeter
Linux
Lucene
A Java text search-engine library.
Maven
A Java project management & comprehension tool).
OpenSource
Optimizeit ServerTrace
Oracle Application Server
Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Database
Oracle Designer
Oracle Developer Suite
Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM)
Oracle JDeveloper
Oracle Jrockit JVM
Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Oracle Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) suite
Oracle WebLogic Platform
OSB
Oracle Service Bus
Portal
Python
Rational Rose
An object-oriented unified modelling language
SDLC
The software development lifecycle
Seam
Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Solaris
Spring
Struts
Terracotta
Software which manages the scalability, availability & performance of real-time ‘big data’ applications.
Tomcat
A web container for serving servlets & JSP
UML
UNIX
Web Services
Websphere
Wicket
WildFly
WSAD