Appendix . Acronyms

AOL

America Online

API

Application Programming Interface

APPC

[IBM’s] Advanced Program-to-Program Communications

ASP

[Microsoft’s] Active Server Pages

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode or Automated Teller Machine

AVK

Application Verification Kit

AWT

Abstract Windows Toolkit or Advanced Windows Toolkit

b2b

Business-to-Business

b2c

Business-to-Consumer

b2e

Business-to-Employee

BAL

Basic Assembler Language

BEEP

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

BPEL4WS

Business Process Execution Language for Web Services

CA

Certificate Authority

CDC

Connected Device Configuration

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CICS

[IBM’s] Customer Information Control System

CLR

Common Language Runtime

CML

Chemical Markup Language

COM

[Microsoft’s] Component Object Model

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker ...

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