API Application Programming Interface
AD Active Directory
AOP Aspect Oriented Programming
ATL Active Template Library
B2B Business-to-Business
BC Binding Components
COM Component Oject Model
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DC Delivery Channel
DAO Data Access Object
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DCOM Distributed COM
DI Dependency Injection
DLL Dynamic Linking Library
EAI Enterprise Application Integration
EDA Event Driven Architecture
EIP Enterprise Integration Pattern
EIS Enterprise Information System
EMEA Europe, Middle East and Africa
ESB Enterprise Service Bus
IDL Interface Description Language
IoC Inverse of Control
JAF Javabeans Activation Framework
JAXM Java API for XML Messaging
JBI Java Business Integration
JCA Java EE Connector Architecture
JCF JBI Component Framework
JMS Java Message Service
LPC Local Procedure Call
MEP Message Exchange Patterns
MFC Microsoft Foundation Class
MSMQ Microsoft Message Queuing
MTS Microsoft Transaction Server
MVC Model-View-Controller
NMR Normalized Message Router
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMG Object Management Group
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OPC OLE for Process Control
ORM Object Relational Mapping
OSF Open Software Foundation
OWL Object Windows Library
POJO Plain Old Java Objects
QoS Quality of Service
RPC Remote Procedure Call
SA Service Assembly
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SDK Software Development Kits
SE Service Engine
SOA Service Oritented Architecture
SU Service Unit
WCF Windows Communication Foundation
WMI Windows Management and Instrumentation
WSDL Web Service Description Language
UUID Universally Unique Identifier