Java terms starting with W

37 terms

  1. W-CDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access) Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), also known as IMT-2000, is a 3rd generation wireless technology.
  2. W3C World Wide Web Consortium.
  3. WAE (Wireless Application Environment) The Wireless Application Environment (WAE) provides a application framework for small devices. WAE leverages other technologies such as WAP, WTP, and WSP.
  4. WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) An open, global specification that enables wireless devices to access and interact with information and services. [Exchange 2003]
  5. WAP Gateway A WAP Gateway acts as a bridge allowing WAP devices to communicate with other networks (namely the Internet).
  6. WAR file Web application archive file. A JAR archive that contains a Web module.
  7. Warning The fourth of five Early Warning System components consisting of the processes (including the media) and equipment necessary to make the public aware of…
  8. WDP (Wireless Datagram Protocol) Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP) works as the transport layer of WAP. WDP processes datagrams from upper layers to formats required by different physical…
  9. Web application An application written for the Internet, including those built with Java technologies such as JavaServer Pages and servlets, as well as those built with…
  10. Web application, distributable A Web application that uses J2EE technology written so that it can be deployed in a Web container distributed across multiple Java virtual machines…
  11. Web component A component that provides services in response to requests; either a servlet or a JSP page.
  12. Web container A container that implements the Web component contract of the J2EE architecture.
  13. Web container provider A vendor that supplies a Web container.
  14. Web container, distributed A Web container that can run a Web application that is tagged as distributable and that executes across multiple Java virtual machines running on the same…
  15. Web module A deployable unit that consists of one or more Web components, other resources, and a Web application deployment descriptor contained in a hierarchy of…
  16. Web resource A static or dynamic object contained in a Web application that can be referenced by a URL.
  17. Web resource collection A list of URL patterns and HTTP methods that describe a set of Web resources to be protected.
  18. Web server A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with…
  19. Web server provider A vendor that supplies a Web server.
  20. Web Service A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
  21. well-formed An XML document that is syntactically correct. It does not have any angle brackets that are not part of tags, all tags have an ending tag or are…
  22. well-known port A port number at which a server offers a familiar service. For instance, 80 is the well-known port number for servers using the HyperText Transfer…
  23. while A Java keyword used to declare a loop that iterates a block of statements. The loop's exit condition is specified as part of the while statement.
  24. while loop One of Java's three control structures used for looping. The other two are the do loop and for loop.
  25. white space Characters used to create visual spacing within a program. White spaces include space, tab, carriage return and line feed characters.
  26. window manager A window manager provides a computer user with a virtual desktop containing one or more windows and working areas in which individual programs may be run.
  27. WMA (Wireless Messaging API) The Wireless Messaging API (WMA) is a set of classes for sending and receiving Short Message Service messages. See also SMS.
  28. WML (Wireless Markup Language) The Wireless Markup Language (WML) is a simple language used to create applications for small wireless devices like mobile phones.
  29. WMLScript WMLScript is a subset of the JavaScript scripting language designed as part of the WAP standard to provide a convenient mechanism to access mobile phone's…
  30. world readable files Files on a file system that can be viewed (read) by any user. For example: files residing on Web servers can only be viewed by Internet users if their…
  31. wrapper An object that encapsulates and delegates to another object to alter its interface or behavior in some way.
  32. wrapper classes Java's primitive types are not object types. The wrapper classes are defined in the java.lang package.
  33. Writer class A sub class of the Writer abstract, defined in the java.io package. Writer classes translate output from Unicode to a host-dependent character set…
  34. WSP (Wireless Session Protocol) Wireless Session Protocol (WSP) implements session services of WAP. Sessions can be connection-oriented and connectionless and they may be suspended and…
  35. WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) Wireless Transport Layer Security protocal (WTLS) does all cryptography oriented features of WAP.
  36. WTP (Wireless Transaction Protocol) Wireless Transaction Protocol (WTP) is WAP's transaction protocol that works between the session protocol WSP and security protocol WTLS.
  37. WWW World Wide Web. The WWW is made up of all of the computers on the Internet which use HTML-capable software (Netscape, Explorer, etc.) to exchange data.