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Appendix B: Glossary and Acronym List
Pages 66-69

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... : a middleware service that allows software application "objects" to interoperate over networks. For example a CORBA object representing inventory can interact with remotely located customer objects by using CORBA services.
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... J2EE (JAVA 2 platform enterprise edition) : a very comprehensive specification, defined by Sun for enterprise applications, for the infrastructure to support Web service and to enable development of secure and interoperable business applications.
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... : a specific class of middleware that supports the exchange of general-purpose messages in a distributed application environment, i.e., it facilitates communication between distributed applications by using asynchronous processing. MOM is at the core of most message brokers.
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... FAULT-TOLERANT SOFTWARE TERMS Data diversity: a method for developing alternative software outputs from a single version of code through use of multiple, slightly perturbed versions of the input data; an example is e-copy programming. Design diversity (parallel coding)
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