User's Guide
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:
- Publish customized pages based on client's code level
- Enhance the basic authentication or replace it with a site-specific
process
- Add error handling routines to track problems or alert for serious
conditions
- Detect and track information that comes in from the requesting
client, such as server referrals and user agent code
- 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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