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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer: User Guide 10
Abbreviations Used in this Manual
The following is a list of the abbreviations used in this manual. Where needed, a short
explanation is also provided.
API Application Programming Interface
BAPI Business API
BI Business Intelligence
BW Business Information Warehouse
EPCM Enterprise Portal Client Manager
An object defined by the portal Client Framework to handle functions such as
client eventing
GML Generic Modeling Language
IDES SAP Internet Demo and Evaluation System
IGS Internet Graphics Service
Used to display results of BI queries in Heatmap format
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
The portal operates on top of the J2EE engine
JDBC Java database connectivity
MDX Multidimensional Expression language
Used for manipulating multidimensional data
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
A means of processing and presenting multidimensional data for analysis and
management
PAR Portal Archive file
Contains all resources of a portal application
PCD Portal Content Directory
RFC Remote Function Call
SQL Structured Query Language
A standardized language for retrieving data from and updating a database
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
A language used to describe two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster
graphics in XML
UI User Interface
URL Uniform Resource Locator
The address of a site on the Internet
URN Uniform Resource Name
A persistent identifier for information resources
XMLA XML for Analysis
A
set of XML message interfaces used to define data access interaction
between a client and an analytical data provider working over the Internet
