Glossary
Acronym | Full Name | Definition |
AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol | AMQP is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. |
API | Application program interface | A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. An API specifies how software components should interact and APIs are used when programming graphical user interface (GUI) components. |
CLI | Command-line Interface | |
CMS | Content Management System | |
JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | |
JSON-RPC | JavaScript Object Notation-Remote Procedure Call | A lightweight remote procedure call protocol. It’s designed to be simple! |
LCMS | Learning Content Management System | |
MDM | Master Data Management | The processes, governance, policies, standards, and tools that consistently define and manage the critical data of an organization to provide a single point of reference. |
REST | Representational State Transfer | A REST API defines a set of functions which developers can perform requests and receive responses via HTTP protocol such as GET and POST. A service based on REST is called a RESTful service. |
RPC | Remote Procedure Call | Remote Procedure Call (RPC) RPC is the earliest, simplest form of API interaction. It’s about executing a block of code on another server, and when implemented in HTTP or AMQP it can become a Web API. There’s a method and some arguments, and that is pretty much it. |
RTE | Rich Text Editor | |
SDK | Software Development Kit | |
SSO | Single Sign-on |