This glossary defines terms as they are used in the context of
Web Services Client for C++.
- ANSI
- American National Standard for Information Systems
- API
- Application Programming Interface
- AXISCPP_DEPLOY
- Environment variable that points to the installation directory, referred
to as <inst_dir> in this documentation
- client engine
- A set of libraries that are made available at runtime to the client stubs
- DLL
- Dynamic Link Library
- handler
- A library component that has the ability to manipulate a SOAP message,
thus allowing the user to customize or extend any message components. Handlers
are invoked either just before a request message is transmitted or just after
a response message has been received
- global handler
- A handler that is called regardless of the web service or message name
- GSKit
- Global Security Kit, IBM's SSL component
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- IEEE
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- JAX-RPC
- Java API for XML-Based RPC
- pivot point
- The point where a message is either written on to or read from the wire
- post-pivot handler
- A handler that works on a response message after it has been received
- pre-pivot handler
- A handler that works on a request message that is to be transmitted
- RPC
- Remote Procedure Call
- secure endpoint URL
- Endpoint beginning with https
- service handler
- A handler that is specific to the web service with which it is associated
- SOAP
- Simple Object Access Protocol
- SSL
- Secure Sockets Layer
- TCPIP
- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- wire
- All the underlying components that are responsible for physically sending
or receiving a message on the web
- WSDD
- Web Service Deployment Descriptor. An XML style file containing information
that Web Services Client for C++ uses as it builds request messages and decodes
response messages
- WSDL
- Web Service Description Language. WSDLs are XML files containing all the
information relating to services that are available at a particular location
on the internet
- WSDL2Ws
- Java tool that converts a WSDL into a set of C++ client stubs that can
be called by the client application
- XML
- eXtensible Mark-up Language
- XML4C
- eXtensible Mark-up Language for C/C++
- XSD
- XML Schema Definition