terminology

ESB: Enterprise Service Bus, acts as the single message exchange between applications - See more at: http://www.j2eebrain.com/java-J2ee-enterprise-service-bus.html#sthash.3WPT0JtH.dpuf 

ESB principles and practices: An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a modular and component based architecture and a key enabler used for implementing the infrastructure for service oriented architecture (SOA). For building a comprehensive service oriented infrastructure (SOI), an ESB is only one of many components used. An ESB allows the interaction between heterogeneous service and interface that might be mismatched or that may change over time. - See more at: http://www.j2eebrain.com/java-J2ee-enterprise-service-bus.html#sthash.2Ec8PKsE.dpuf

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOA makes it easier for software components on computers connected over a network to cooperate 

Jboss Fuse: lightweight communication service hub, JBoss Fuse is an open source, lightweight Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 


PaaS: Platform as Service

Web Service: a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network

Subversion, CVS, file sharing and version control software

ANT: Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It originally came from the Apache Tomcat project in early 2000. It was a replacement for the unix make build tool, and was created due to a number of problems with the unix make.
Used it in Shibbleth

Maven: Apache Maven  software project management and comprehension tool 

Servlets, 

A servlet is a Java programming language class that is used to extend the capabilities of servers that host applications accessed by means of a request-response programming model. Although servlets can respond to any type of request, they are commonly used to extend the applications hosted by web servers. For such applications, Java Servlet technology defines HTTP-specific servlet classes.

The javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http packages provide interfaces and classes for writing servlets. All servlets must implement the Servlet interface, which defines life-cycle methods. When implementing a generic service, you can use or extend the GenericServlet class provided with the Java Servlet API. The HttpServlet class provides methods, such as doGet and doPost, for handling HTTP-specific services.

This chapter focuses on writing servlets that generate responses to HTTP requests.

Struts: Apache Struts is a free, open-source, MVC framework for creating elegant, modern Java web applications. It favors convention over configuration, is extensible using a plugin architecture, and ships with plugins to support REST, AJAX and JSON

Tiles:  a java frameword

MVC: Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software architectural pattern for implementing user interfaces. Traditionally used for desktop graphical user interfaces, this architecture has become extremely popular for designing web applications.

JMS, is a part of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition, and is defined by a specification developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 914. It is a messaging standard that allows application components based on the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) to create, send, receive, and read messages.

Spring Framework: Eclipse Spring Framework 

AJAX,  AJAX is the art of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page - without reloading the whole page, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

Apache CFX (SOAP): is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.(spring, struts)

 JMeter.  application is open source software, a 100% pure Java application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions.

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, 

REST, 
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
XML-RPC

1. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPSstands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.