Terms & Abbreviations
Term | Abbreviations |
.war file | WAR file (or Web application Archive) is a JAR file used to distribute a collection of Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, Java classes, XML files, tag libraries, static Web pages (HTML and related files) and other resources that together constitute a Web application. |
API | Application Program Interface is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. |
CXF | Apache CXF is a fully featured Web service framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI |
SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML based protocol used for exchange of information in a distributed environment as part of the web service utilities. |
WSDL | Web Service Definition Language, defines XML grammar for describing network services as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages. |
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