IP or Internet Protocol is the protocol used to communicate data across most modern networks and the internet.

Secure Sockets Layer

The XINS introduction presentation (PDF) provides an introduction to frameworks in general and to XINS in particular.

POX or Plain Old XML is a term used to describe basic XML, in contrast to more complicated XML specifications like RDF, much in the same way POJO contrasts to EJBs.

Name of the RPC protocol integrated within XINS, previously called “REST-RPC”. Since the name “REST-RPC” is considered confusing, it has been changed. The XINS-internal name for this protocol used to be “the XINS standard calling convention.” POX-RPC intends to offer the simplicity of XML-RPC, combined with improved features, including browser-compatibility. “POX” stands for “Plain Old XML” while “RPC” stands for “Remote Pr

Working name for the RPC protocol integrated within XINS. Since this name is considered confusing, it has been changed to POX-RPC. XINS-internal name for this protocol used to be “the XINS standard calling convention.”

Any set of symbols and the rules for combining them which are used to specify to a computer the actions that it is to take; also referred to as a computer language.

Sun Microsystems is an IT technology company, mostly known for their Solaris operating system, SPARC-based systems and the Java programming language.

A System 5 UNIX operating system by Sun Microsystems.

Java is a object-oriented programming language created by Sun Microsystems. It is compiled to an intermediate language called ‘byte code’ that is then interpreted. The interpreted nature allows compiled Java programs to run on different platforms, including FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, Windows, MacOS and a lot of other operating systems. An older version of the language can also be compiled to native code by the gcj compiler. Java compilers are produced by Sun, IBM and the open source

The XINS Primer is a tutorial for XINS. It takes the reader by the hand and lets him create his first XINS API implementation, learning the basics regarding authoring a XINS specification, generating a web application from that spec and then doing a little bit of Java coding.

Simple Object Access Protocol or SOAP is a standard protocol for webservices. The SOAP specification can be found at the W3C site.

XINS is an open-source Webservices framework, supporting XSLT, SOAP, XML-RPC and POX-RPC. It consists mainly of an XML-based specification format and a Java-based implementation framework. From its POX-style specifications, XINS can generate HTML, WSDL, client-side and server-side Java code and test forms. Users do not require knowledge of any complex formats, such as XML Schema.