Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Attaining Ultimate Mastery of the Java Alphabet Soup

Java anagrams:

  • MMAPI - Mobile Media API. Audio/video API for resource-constrained devices.
  • Java WSDP (Wiz-dip)- Web Services Developer Pack
  • JAX-RPC - Java API for XML web services (part of Glassfish, open source application server). Glassfish versus JBoss is discussed here.
  • UTF-8 (UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) - preferred encoding for web. Backwards compatible with ASCII - hence popularity. Backwards compatibility is a great feature in computing. It allows one installed base to immediately transfer to a new installed base. Think C/C++. Java 6 Update 11 had a new UTF-8 charset implementation.
  • UCS - Universal Character Set. abstract charset on which many charsets are based.
  • JCP - Java Community Process
  • JSR - Java Specification Request

Acronyms for Java debugging architecture:

  • JDWP - Java Debug Wire Protocol
  • JDI - Java Debug Interface
  • JVMTI - Java VM Tool interface

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