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Database applications

Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Cartridge

Software; Database applications

A stored programme in Java or PL/SQL that adds the necessary functionality for the database to understand and manipulate a new datatype. Cartridges interface through the Extensibility Framework ...

CDF

Software; Database applications

Channel Definition Format. Provides a way to exchange information about channels on the internet.

Character data

Software; Database applications

Text in a document that should not be parsed is put within a CDATA section. This allows for the inclusion of characters that would otherwise have special functions, such as &, <, >, etc. CDATA ...

Common Gateway Interface

Software; Database applications

The generic acronym for the programming interfaces enabling Web servers to execute other programmes and pass their output to HTML pages, graphics, audio, and video sent to browsers.

Child element

Software; Database applications

An element that is wholly contained within another, which is referred to as its parent element. For example <Parent><Child></Child></Parent> illustrates a child element nested ...

Class Generator

Software; Database applications

A utility that accepts an input file and creates a set of output classes that have corresponding functionality. In the case of the XML Class Generator, the input file is a DTD and the output is a ...

CLASSPATH

Software; Database applications

The operating system environmental variable that the JVM uses to find the classes it needs to run applications.

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