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User's Guide


Glossary

The following special terms are used within this document, or in the environment in which MQseries Internet Gateway is used.
API
See Application Programming Interface.
Application Programming Interface (API)
An Application Programming Interface consists of the functions and variables that programmers are allowed to use in their applications.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface.
channel
See MQI channel.
client
In MQSeries, a client is a run-time component that provides access to queuing services on a server for local user applications.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
CGI is a standard, supported by almost all Web servers, that defines how information is exchanged between a Web server and an external program.
HTML
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a language used to define information that is to be displayed on the World Wide Web.
ICAPI
Internet Connection Application Programming Interface.
Internet
The Internet is a cooperative public network of shared information. Physically, the Internet uses a subset of the total resources of all the currently existing public telecommunication networks. Technically, what distinguishes the Internet as a cooperative public network is its use of a set of protocols called TCP/IP (Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol).
Internet Connection Application Programming Interface (ICAPI)
ICAPI is an IBM proprietary alternative to Common Gateway Interface that allows you to extend the server's base functions. You can write extensions to do customized processing, such as:
Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI)
A Microsoft proprietary alternative to Common Gateway Interface, designed to improve the function and performance of the interface.
ISAPI
Internet Server Application Programming Interface.
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface (NSAPI)
A Netscape proprietary alternative to Common Gateway Interface, designed to improve the function and performance of the interface.
NSAPI
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface.
message
In message queuing applications, a message is a communication sent between programs.
message queue
See queue
message queuing
A programming technique in which each program within an application communicates with the other programs by putting messages on queues.
MQI channel
An MQI channel connects an MQSeries client to a queue manager on a server system and transfers MQI calls and responses in a bidirectional manner.
MQSeries
MQSeries is a family of IBM licensed programs that provide message queuing services.
object
In MQSeries, an object is a queue manager, a queue, or a channel.
queue
A queue is an MQSeries object. Message queuing applications can put messages on, and get messages from, a queue.
queue manager
A queue manager is a system program the provides message queuing services to applications.
server
(1)In MQSeries a server is a queue manager that provides message queuing services to client applications running on a remote workstation. (2) More generally a server is a program that responds to requests for information in the particular two-program information flow model of client/server. (3)The computer on which a server program runs.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A set of communication protocols that support peer-to-peer connectivity functions for both local and wide area networks.
Web
See World Wide Web.
Web-aware application
An MQSeries application written specificallyfor use with the MQSeries Internet Gateway.
Web browser(Web)
A program that formats and displays information that is distributed on the World Wide Web.
Web server(Web)
A computer that is configured to distribute documents across the Internet using the common World Wide Web protocols.
World Wide Web(Web)
The World Wide Web is an Internet service, based on a common set of protocols, which allows a particularly configured server computer to distribute documents across the Internet in a standard way.

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