Glossary

The component of ASE Web Services that acts as a producer and consumer of Web services. The ASE Web Services Engine enables a client application to access Adaptive Server Enterprise stored procedures and SQL as Web methods. The ASE Web Services Engine also maps Web methods to proxy tables, allowing a client application to invoke the Web method through a SQL select statement.

A type of Web method for which communicating parties specify the data being transmitted and formatted according to XML schemas incorporated into the WSDL file.

Document Type Definition, used to define the legal building blocks of an XML document. A DTD can be declared within an XML document or referenced externally.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol, part of the application layer of the Internet Protocol suite and is the primary means of exchanging information in the World Wide Web.

HTTP with SSL or TLS encryption.

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, an application-level protocol for Internet-based directory services.

A type of Web method invoked with SOAP messages containing an XML element for each method parameter.

An outline defining the structure, content, and semantics of an XML document.

Specialty Data Store, used as a Component Integration Service (CIS) to map a Web method to a proxy table.

Simple Object Access Protocol, a standard for XML-based messaging across a network.

SQL/XML, an ANSI and ISO standard that provides support for using XML in the context of a SQL database system.

Universal Description Discovery and Integration.

Uniform Resource Identifier, a string of characters that identify an Internet Resource. The most common URI is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which identifies an Internet address. A less common URI is the Universal Resource Name (URN).

Uniform Resource Locator, one type of URI.

An arbitrary SQL statement named by the end user and executed with a SOAP client or through a Web browser.

World Wide Web Consortium, which produces the software standards for the World Wide Web.

A function described by WSDL and invoked through SOAP message.

One or more Web methods described by a WSDL file.

Web Services Description Language, which describes the public interface to a Web service.

The Apache open-source XML parser.

Extensible Markup Language, a markup language standardized by W3C.

A description of an XML document consisting of structure and content constraints.

XML Path Language, a language for addressing parts of an XML document.

XML Query Language, a precursor of XQuery.