Loosely Coupled glossaryDefinitions of terms and concepts in web services and process automationASP- July 22, 2003 (Application Service Provider) Hosted software contractor. An ASP operates software at its data center, which customers access online under a service contract. The first wave of ASPs were application outsourcers, who hosted software packages from established enterprise software vendors such as SAP, Peoplesoft and Oracle. They are being superceded by a larger group of 'web-native' or 'net-native' ASPs, who have developed their own software, often using open-source platforms such as Linux, Apache.http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/ASP XSLT- July 16, 2003 (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) Reformats XML data. Endorsed as a standard by the W3C, XSLT is a language for transforming data extracted from an XML document into a new document. The destination format can be in simple text, HTML or XML. The most common use of XSLT is in conjunction with XML Path Language (XPath) in e-business integration, when its role is to transform XML data between the different XML structures used by each participant. XSLT is also widely used in website...http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/XSLT ESB- July 16, 2003 (Enterprise Service Bus) Universal integration backbone. An ESB acts as a shared messaging layer for connecting applications and other services throughout an enterprise computing infrastructure. It supplements its core asynchronous messaging backbone with intelligent transformation and routing to ensure messages are passed reliably. Services participate in the ESB using either web services messaging standards or the Java Message System (JMS). Originally defined by analysts at Gartner, ESB is...http://looselycoupled.com/glossary/ESB |