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User abbreviations

Abbreviations

Because in this documentation are abbreviations widely used here should be this abbreviations shortly described.

Abbreviation
Name Description
GET GET HTTP request defined in RFC 2616 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
HEAD HEAD HTTP request defined in RFC 2616 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
HTML Defined in HTML 4.01 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
HTTP Defined in RFC 2616 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
JPA Java Persistence API http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/5/tutorial/doc/?wp406141&JavaEETutorialPartFour.html
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol
OP OpenID Provider - provide user authentication
RP Relying Party - rely in user authentication provided by OP
SSO Single Sign On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on
UI User Interface
URL Uniform Resource Locator defined in RFC 3986 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt
XRDS eXtensible Resource Descriptor Sequence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRDS
XRI Extensible Resource Identifiers specification https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/15377/xri-syntax-V2.0-cs.pdf