- Industry: Computer
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Sometimes referred to as “Big Blue” IBM is a multinational corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. It manufactures computer hardware and software and provides information technology and services.
(1) An object that provides dynamic storage for a procedure. The object is part of the activation group and is deleted when the activation group is deleted.<br />(2) A logical grouping of memory that fulfils the needs of a particular component. For example, the utility heap memory is used by DB2 utilities such as backup, restore, and load.<br />(3) An area of storage that is allocated with a lifetime unrelated to the execution of the current routine. The heap consists of the initial heap segment and zero or more increments.<br />(4) In Java programming, a block of memory that the Java virtual machine (JVM) uses at run time to store Java objects. Java heap memory is managed by a garbage collector, which automatically de-allocates Java objects that are no longer in use.
Industry:Software
(1) In object-oriented programming, a special method used to initialize an object.<br />(2) A special C++ class member function that has the same name as the class and is used to create an object of that class.<br />(3) An XQuery expression that creates XML structures within a query. See also computed constructor, constructor function, direct constructor.
Industry:Software
(1) An object that represents a stable configuration for one or more components. A baseline identifies activities and one version of every element that is visible in one or more components.<br />(2) A reviewed and approved release of artefacts that constitutes an agreed basis for further evolution or development and that can be changed only through a formal procedure, such as change management and configuration control. See also release.<br />(3) A snapshot of the approved project plan and budget, used for comparison purposes as a project progresses.<br />(4) A snapshot of a configuration item (CI) or a set of configuration items (CIs) frozen at a point in time for a particular purpose. A baseline will often be recorded to ensure that the infrastructure can be restored to a trusted state should a change fail or the CI need to be built again. A baseline will also be established for the roll out of new CIs and for use in a disaster recovery situation.
Industry:Software
(1) In object-oriented programming, an operation that an object can perform. An object can have many methods. See also operation.<br />(2) In object-oriented design or programming, the software that implements the behaviour specified by an operation.<br />(3) See member function.<br />(4) In Java programming, a function that is defined in a class. (Sun)<br />(5) A database object that encapsulates procedural logic to provide behaviour for a structured type. A method can be implemented as an SQL method or an external method. See also structured type, external method, SQL method, routine.<br />(6) A way to implement a function on a class.
Industry:Software
(1) An object that supports an asynchronous notification server within a single Java virtual machine. Using an event source, the event listener object can be registered and used to implement any interface.<br />(2) An application that uses an event emitter to send events to the event server. See also event server, event emitter.
Industry:Software
(1) In object-oriented programming, pertaining to a class member that is accessible to all classes.<br />(2) In the Java programming language, pertains to a method or variable that can be accessed by elements residing in other classes. (Sun)
Industry:Software
(1) An object that the system programme uses to store the information needed to perform some system functions. Internal objects cannot be displayed by a user. For example, you cannot use a display command (like the Display Library (DSPLIB) command) to display internal objects. See also external object.<br />(2) A structured field that can be included as part of a resource or a print job (data set or file), but that cannot be accessed separately.
Industry:Software
(1) In object-oriented programming, state information associated with an object.<br />(2) A type of performance data that consists of response times that are collected every time the transaction is detected. See also hourly average data.
Industry:Software
(1) An object whose state can be preserved beyond the ending of the process that created it. Typically, persistent objects are stored in files.<br />(2) An object that exists after the process or thread that created it has ceased to exist.
Industry:Software
An Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)-defined security protocol that is based on Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and is specified in RFC 2246.
Industry:Software
