Office of Information Technologies

POLICIES

The Office of Information Technologies at Salve Regina University strives to serve faculty, staff and students in their technology needs. Information is provided pertaining to Internet policies and guidelines.

DEFINITIONS

ASP (Active Server Pages) : A specification for a dynamically created Web page with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting -- usually VB Script or Jscript code. When a browser requests an ASP page, the Web server generates a page with HTML code and sends it back to the browser. So ASP pages are similar to CGI scripts, but they enable Visual Basic programmers to work with familiar tools.

Application Server: A program that handles all application operations between users and an organization's backend business applications or databases. Application servers are typically used for complex transaction-based applications.

Cold Fusion (CFML) : A product created by Allaire Corporation of Cambridge, Mass. (in 2001, Allaire merged with Macromedia) that includes a server and a development toolset designed to integrate databases and Web pages. [2] CFML: Short for ColdFusion Markup Language CFML is a tag-based Web scripting language supporting dynamic Web page creation and database access in a Web server environment.

Flash: A bandwidth friendly and browser independent vector-graphic animation technology.

HTML: Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.

IT: Short for Office of Information Technology

Java: Java is an object-oriented language similar to C++, but simplified to eliminate language features that cause common programming errors.

JavaScript: A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Although it shares many of the features and structures of the full Java language, it was developed independently. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content.

LDAP: Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a set of protocols for accessing information directories.

Microsoft Access: Database application provided via Microsoft's Office Suite. At this time only Access 2000 is supported by IT.

Perl: Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for processing text. Because of its strong text processing abilities, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. Perl is an interpretive language, which makes it easy to build and test simple programs.

PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.

SQL Server: Any database management system (DBMS) that can respond to queries from client machines formatted in the SQL language. When capitalized, the term generally refers to either of two database management products from Sybase and Microsoft. Both companies offer client-server DBMS products called SQL Server.

WPG: Short for Web Policy Group, administrative body compiled of members from the various Internet providers of Salve Regina University.

XHTML: Short for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a hybrid between HTML and XML specifically designed for Net device displays. XHTML is a markup language written in XML; therefore, it is an XML application.

XML: Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.