Java terms starting with S

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Sandbox A network or series of networks that are not connected to other networks.
SAX See Simple API for XML.
scheduler Term used to describe a job scheduler mechanism to which GRAM interfaces. It is a networked system for submitting, controlling, and monitoring the…
Schema A set of rules or conceptual model for data structure and content, such as a description of the data content and relationships in a database.
scheme See protocol.
scope what is included - as in the scope of a claim
SDK (Software Development Kit) A Software Development Kit (SDK) is a set of tools used to develop applications for a particular platform.
search path A list of folders (directories) to be searched - for a program or class, for instance.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) A technology that allows Web browsers and Web servers to communicate over a secured connection.
security attributes A set of properties associated with a principal. Security attributes can be associated with a principal by an authentication protocol or by a J2EE product…
security constraint A declarative way to annotate the intended protection of Web content. A security constraint consists of a Web resource collection, an authorization…
security context The security attributes or rules that are currently in effect. For example, the rules that govern what a user can do to a protected object are determined…
security permission A mechanism defined by J2SE, and used by the J2EE platform to express the programming restrictions imposed on application component developers.
security permission set The minimum set of security permissions that a J2EE product provider must provide for the execution of each component type.
Security Policy The set of laws, rules, and practices that regulate how an organization manages, protects, and distributes sensitive information.
security policy domain A scope over which security policies are defined and enforced by a security administrator.
security role See role (security).
security technology domain A scope over which the same security mechanism is used to enforce a security policy.
security view The set of security roles defined by the application assembler.
semantic error An error in the meaning of program. A statement may have no syntax errors, but might still break the rules of the Java language.
serialization The encoding of objects, and the objects reachable from them, into a stream of bytes and the complementary reconstruction of the object graph from the…
Server Any computer on a network that contains data or applications shared by users of the network on their client PCs.
server certificate An electronic stamp stored in the server's key ring file that contains a public key, a name, an expiration date, and a digital signature.
server principal The OS principal that the server is executing as.
service element A representation of the combination of one or more Connector components that share a single engine component for processing incoming requests.
service endpoint interface A Java interface that declares the methods that a client can invoke on a Web service.
servlet For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
servlet container A container that provides the network services over which requests and responses are sent, decodes requests, and formats responses.
servlet container, distributed A servlet container that can run a Web application that is tagged as distributable and that executes across multiple Java virtual machines running on the…
servlet context An object that contains a servlet's view of the Web application within which the servlet is running.
servlet mapping Defines an association between a URL pattern and a servlet. The mapping is used to map requests to servlets.
Session The period during which Congress assembles and carries on its regular business.
session bean An enterprise bean that is created by a client and that usually exists only for the duration of a single client-server session.
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language (Computer term).
shallow copy A copy of an object in which copies of all the object's sub-components are not also made.
shift operator See left shift operator and right shift operator.
short A Java keyword used to define a variable of type short.
short-circuit operator An operator in which only as many operands are evaluated as are needed to determine the final result of the operation.
shortcut key A key-press associated with a component in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides an alternative to selecting the component's operation with a…
sibling sub classes Classes that have the same immediate super class. See inheritance hierarchy.
sign bit In twos-complement notation, the most significant bit in an integer value is used to determine the sign of the value.
sign extension When an integer value from a type with a particular range is stored in a variable with a bigger range, Java uses sign extension to determine the resulting…
SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) A Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is a stripped-down smart card containing information about the identity of a cell-phone subscriber, and subscriber…
Simple API for XML An event-driven interface in which the parser invokes one of several methods supplied by the caller when a parsing event occurs.
single inheritance In Java, a class may not extend more than one class. This means that Java has a single inheritance model for class inheritance.
single line comment A comment in the form // This line will be ignored by the compiler.
single precision Refers to a level of coordinate accuracy based on the number of significant digits that can be stored for each coordinate.
singleton pattern A pattern that allows us to ensure that only a single instance of a particular class exists at any one time. Such an instance is called a singleton.
SMS (Short Message Service) Short Message Service (SMS) is a point-to-point service similar to paging for sending text messages of up to 160 characters to mobile phones.
SOAP SOAP provides a standard, extensible, composable framework for packaging and exchanging XML messages between a service provider and a service requester.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Simple Object Access Protocol is a means of sending messages between a service requester and provider.
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) The basic package for SOAP messaging, SAAJ contains the API for creating and populating a SOAP message.
Software Coded instructions (programs) that make a computer do useful work.
software engineering (1) A discipline whose objectives are to define, create, and apply a welldefined methodology that addresses a software life cycle of planning…
software reuse The ability to reuse software components in different contexts. Object-oriented languages help to promote reuse by their support of encapsulation.
sound card A hardware device used to turn digital data into sound.
SQL Structured Query Language (Computer term).
SQL/J A set of standards that includes specifications for embedding SQL statements in methods in the Java programming language and specifications for calling…
SSL See definition for: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) A security protocol for the Internet and Intranets that provides communications privacy and authentication for IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server tasks that…
Stack A group of 20 roulette chips.
stack overflow Stack overflow occurs when too many items are pushed onto a stack with a finite capacity.
stack trace A display of the runtime stack.
State State means one of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
stateful session bean A session bean with a conversational state.
stateless session bean A session bean with no conversational state. All instances of a stateless session bean are identical.
Statement A summary of all transactions that occurred over the preceding month and could be associated with a deposit account or a credit card account.
statement terminator The semicolon (;) is used to indicate the end of a statement.
Static Unchanging over a length of time.
static field Another name for class variable.
static initializer An initializer prefixed with the static reserved word. A static initializer is defined outside the methods of its enclosing class, and may only access the…
static method A static method (also known as a class method) is one with the static reserved word in its header.
static nested class A nested class with the static reserved word in its header. Unlike inner classes, objects of static nested classes have no enclosing object.
static type The static type of an object is the declared type of the variable used to refer to it. See dynamic type.
static variable A static variable defined inside a class body. Such a variable belongs to the class as a whole, and is, therefore, shared by all objects of the class.
stepwise refinement A divide and conquer approach to programming, in which a complex problem is recursively divided into smaller, more manageable, sub-problems.
stream A body of running water.
Stream class Classification of streams based on the present and foreseeable uses made of the water, and the potential effects of on-site changes on downstream uses.
string A series of alphanumeric characters of any length enclosed by quotes.
structured programming A style of programming usually associated with languages such as C, Fortran, Pascal and so on.
sub class A class that extends its super class. A sub class inherits all of the members of its super class.
sub type A type with a parent super type. The sub-type/super-type relationship is more general than the sub-class/super-class relationship.
subarray An array that is inside another array.
subclass Each asset class - stock, bonds, and cash equivalents, for example - is made up of a number of different groups of investments called subclasses.
subordinate inner class An inner class that performs well-defined subordinate tasks on behalf of its enclosing class.
subtype If type X extends or implements type Y, then X is a subtype of Y. See also supertype.
Super Survivable Solar Power Subsystem Demonstrator.
super class A class that is extended by one or more sub classes. All Java classes have the Object class as a super class. See super type.
super type A type with a child sub type. The sub-type/super-type relationship is more general than the sub-class/super-class relationship.
superclass A class from which a particular class is derived, perhaps with one or more classes in between. See also subclass, subtype.
supertype The supertypes of a type are all the interfaces and classes that are extended or implemented by that type. See also subtype, superclass.
swapping An {operating system} is often able to run programs that require more memory than is physically available on the host system.
Swing The Swing classes are part of a wider collection known as the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). Swing classes are defined in the javax.swing packages.
switch A Java keyword used to evaluate a variable that can later be matched with a value specified by the case keyword in order to execute a group of statements.
switch statement A selection statement in which the value of an arithmetic expression {expression!arithmetic} is compared for a match against different case labels.
swizzling The process of recursively writing the contents of an object via object serialization.
synchronized A keyword in the Java programming language that, when applied to a method or code block, guarantees that at most one thread at a time executes that code.
synchronized statement A statement in which an object-lock must be obtained for the target object before the body of the statement can be entered.
syntax error An error detected by the compiler during its parsing of a program. Syntax errors usually result from mis-ordering symbols within expressions and…
system administrator The person responsible for configuring and administering the enterprise's computers, networks, and software systems.