SOA Acronyms

The more I read about SOA related topics, the more buzz words and acronyms I encounter. I therefore decided to try to list these and to share them here.

Disclaim: Due to their plethoric number, all acronyms won’t necessarily be covered by this list or one meaning could have been missed. I will be more then pleased to add anybody's participation if I receive a correction/addition with the source(s) where it can be found.

AAP: Attribute Assignment Policy

AC: Assertion Certificates

ACP: Access Control Policy

ACRL: Assertion Certificates Revocation List



B2B: Business to Business

BAM: Business Activity Monitoring

BPEL: Business Process Execution Language

BPEL4WS: Business Process Execution Language for Web Services

BPM: Business Process Management

BPSS: Business Process Specification Schema



CA: Certification Authority

CBR: Content Base Routing

COM: Component Object Model

CVS: Credential Validation Service



DIS: Delegation Issuing Service

DN: Distinguished Name

DSL: Domain Specific Languages



EAI: Enterprise Application Integration

ebXML: Electronic Business XML

EDI: Electronic Data Interchange

EIM: Enterprise Integration Management

ELT: Extract, Transform and Load

ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning

ESB: Enterprise Service Bus



GGF: Global Grid Forum

GSI: Global Security Infrastructure



HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol



IP: Integration Platform



JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding

JAXP: Java API for XML Parsing

JBI: Java Business Integration

JCA: Java Connector Architecture

JCP: Java Community Process

JMS: Java Message Service

JMX: Java Management eXtension



MEP: Message Exchange Pattern

MQ: Message Queue

MQB: Message Queue Broker

MOM: Message Oriented Middleware

MSMQ: Microsoft Message Queuing



PDP: Policy Decision Point

PEP: Policy Enforcement Point

PKI: Public Key Infrastructure



RBAC: Role Based Access Control

RFC: Remote Function Call



SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language

SecPal: Security Policy Assertion Language

SLA: Service Level Agreement

SoA: Source of Authority

SOA: Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol (depreciated)

SP: Service Provider

SSDL: SOAP Service Description Language

SSL: Secure Socket Layer

SSO: Single SignOn

STP: Straight Through Processing



TCO: Total Cost of Ownership

TTP: Trusted Third Party



UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration



VAN: Value Added Network

VETO: Validate, Enrich, Transform and Operate

VO: Virtual Organisation

VOMS: Virtual Organisation Management System



WS: Web Service

WSDL: Web Service Description Language

WSN: Web Services Networks



XACML: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language

XML: eXtensible Markup Language

XML-RPC: XML Remote Procedure Call

XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSLT: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations