ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

GLOSSARY
JSF
JSP
JSTL
late binding
LIBID
library
license
little endian
macro
map document
MapServer
marshalling
members
memory leak
MTA
n-ary association
See JavaServer Faces.
See JavaServer Pages.
See JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.
A technique that an application uses for determining data type at runtime, using
the IDispatch interface, rather than when the code is compiled. Late binding is
generally used by scripting languages. See also early binding.
Library Identifier. A type of GUID consisting of a unique string assigned to a
type library. See also GUID.
In object-oriented programming, a generic, platform-independent term indicating
a logical grouping of classes. ArcGIS is composed of approximately 50 libraries.
Although the term library refers to a conceptual grouping of ArcGIS types,
libraries do have multiple representations on disk: one per development environment.
In COM, OLBs contain all the type information; in .NET, assemblies
contain the type information; and in Java, JAR files contain the type information.
The grant to a party of the right to use a software package or component.
A computer hardware architecture in which, within a multibyte numeric representation,
the least significant byte has the lowest address and the remaining bytes
are encoded in increasing order of significance. See also big endian.
A computer program, usually a text file, containing a sequence of commands that
are executed as a single command. Macros are used to perform commonly used
sequences of commands or complex operations.
In ArcMap, the file that contains one map; its layout; and its associated layers,
tables, charts, and reports. Map documents can be printed or embedded in other
documents. Map document files have a .mxd extension.
An ArcGIS Server software component that provides programmatic access to the
contents of a map document on disk and creates images of the map contents
based on user requests. It is designed for use in building map-based Web services
and Web applications using ArcGIS Server.
The process that enables communication between a client object and server
object in different apartments of the same process, between different processes,
or between different processes on different machines by specifying how function
calls and parameters are to be passed over these boundaries.
Refers collectively to the properties and methods, or functions, of an interface or
class.
When an application or component allocates a section of memory and does not
free the memory when finished with it, it is said to have a memory leak; the
memory cannot then be used by any other application.
Multiple threaded apartment. An apartment that can have multiple threads
running. A process can only have one MTA. See also apartment, STA, thread,
TNA.
Specifies that more than two classes are associated. A diamond is placed at the
intersection of the association branches.
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