ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

GLOSSARY
Web control
Web form
Web server
Web service
Web service catalog
World Wide Web Consortium
WSDL
XMI
XML
XML Metadata Interchange
XSL
XSLT
The visual component of a Web form that executes its own action on the server.
Web controls are designed specifically to work on Web forms and are similar in
appearance to HTML elements.
Based on ASP.NET technology, Web forms allow the creation of dynamic Web
pages in a Web application. Web forms present their user interface to a client in a
Web browser or other device but generally execute their actions on the server.
A computer that manages Web documents, Web applications, and Web services
and makes them available to the rest of the world.
A software component accessible over the World Wide Web for use in other
applications. Web services are built using industry standards, such as XML and
SOAP, and thus are not dependent on any particular operating system or programming
language, allowing access through a wide range of applications.
A collection of ArcGIS Server Web services. A Web service catalog is itself a
Web service with a distinct endpoint (URL) and can be queried to obtain the list
of Web services in the catalog and their URLs. See also ArcGIS Server Web
service.
An organization that develops standards for the World Wide Web and promotes
interoperability between Web technologies such as browsers. Members from
around the world contribute to standards for XML, XSL, HTML, and many other
Web-based protocols.
Web Service Description Language. The standard format for describing the methods
and types of a Web service, expressed in XML.
See XML Metadata Interchange.
Extensible Markup Language. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium,
XML is a standard for designing text formats that facilitates the interchange of
data between computer applications. XML is a set of rules for creating standard
information formats using customized tags and sharing both the format and the
data across applications.
A standard produced by the Object Management Group that specifies how to
store a UML model in an XML file. ArcGIS can read models in XMI files.
Extensible Style Language. A set of standards for defining XML document
presentation and transformation. An XSL stylesheet may contain information
about how to display tagged content in an XML document, such as font size,
background color, and text alignment. An XSL stylesheet may also contain XSLT
code that describes how to transform the tagged content in an XML document
into an output document with another format. The World Wide Web Consortium
maintains the XSL standards. See also XML, World Wide Web Consortium.
Extensible Style Language Transformations. A language for transforming the
tagged content in an XML document into an output document with another
format. An XSL stylesheet contains the XSLT code that defines each transformation
to be applied. Transforming a document requires the original XML document,
an XSL document containing XSLT code, and an XSLT parser to execute
the transformations. The World Wide Web Consortium maintains the XSLT
standard. See also XML, XSL, World Wide Web Consortium.
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