Business Process Execution Language for Web services is an XML-based language designed to enable task sharing using a combination of Web services.

A connection profile is a configuration set used to access an endpoint. For example, the connection profile for a database endpoint defines the database name, server, user ID, and password parameters that facilitate the connection to the physical database. The server connection profiles provide the information to connect directly to a specific server.

Acronym for Event-Driven Development. The development process for applications that move events between loosely coupled software components and services. The event-driven application typically defines and manages event consumers, which receive an event and process it accordingly, and/or event producers, which generate and send an event to an external system.

The editor enables browsing, editing, or inputting documents or objects.

The development process for applications that move events between loosely coupled software components and services. The event-driven application typically defines and manages event consumers, which receive an event and process it accordingly, and/or event producers, which generate and send an event to an external system.

Integrated development environment typically provides large numbers of features for authoring, modifying, compiling, deploying, and debugging software.

An object oriented programming language and portable runtime environment specification, Java is widely used in distributed computing and has spawned several standard technologies such as:

Sybase WorkSpace supports running Java code as a service. For more information on Java and related standards, see the Java Web site.

Java message service, a standard for messaging services implemented in Java. Part of the J2EE platform. For more information, see the JMS pages on the Java Web site.

Model driven development uses a combination of model- and code-based development functionalities.

A perspective is an arrangement of views and editors. A perspective provides the interface to tools associated with accomplishing a specific type of task.

To reformat white space in program source or a structured document so that the content is easier to read. For example, the Eclipse Java source editor optionally "pretty prints" the code with one statement per line and statements indented inside each code block; you can modify the "pretty print" options in the Java Editor preferences. The Sybase XML Editor can "pretty print" by reformatting XML text with one element tag per line and nested element tags indented relative to the parent's element tag.

A project is the top level of the Sybase WorkSpace hierarchy. A project is a collection of resources that together accomplish a task.

Properties are the characteristics of an object or the attributes associated with a data structure.

Any component used to build a service in Sybase WorkSpace.   Resources are displayed in the WorkSpace Navigator, for example, a project.

Services are self-describing application modules that provide access to business logic and data in networked software components. All endpoints are modeled as services by using WSDL documents that contain a set of operations and can be used in a business process.

Service-Oriented Architecture allows design and development that are not tied to a platform or a language.

Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is a lightweight XML-based communication protocol used to encode the information in Web service request and response messages before sending them over a network. SOAP messages are independent of any operating system or protocol and may be transported using a variety of Internet protocols, including SMTP, MIME, and HTTP. For additional information, see http://www.w3.org.

Service Oriented Development of Applications represents the service-oriented programming style of software development. With this style, SODA applies the concepts of a service-oriented architecture to the design of a single application where applications are created from software services.

Formatting the editor display of a program source file or structured document to show different syntax elements in a different color or font. For example, the Sybase XML Editor displays tag names, attribute names, and attribute values in different colors.

Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualize, construct, and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system under development.

A view is similar to a pane and exists within a perspective. A view provides ways to navigate and work with information.

A Web service is a software resource that initiates and responds to service requests. A Web service can be discovered and run over the Internet using agreed-upon standards such as XML, SOAP, and WSDL.

The Workbench contains a perspective, which contains multiple views and editors.

Web Services Description Language. WSDL is a general purpose XML language for describing interface, protocol bindings, and deployment details of network services. As an XML-formatted language, WSDL is used to describe the capabilities of a Web service as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages. The WSDL details the available methods and parameters types as well as the actual SOAP endpoint for a service. For more information, see http://www.w3.org.

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. XSLT is an XML-based language for translating one set of XML into another set of XML, HTML, or plain text. This is especially beneficial for Web-based messages where the same data need to be converted into different representations of XML because not all companies use the same programs, applications, and computer systems.