Terms and Abbreviations

In the field of distributed transactions, a number of terms and abbreviations are used. Here are the most common ones:


Term/Abbreviation	Short for	Explanation
XA	eXtended Architecture	An Open Group (X/Open) standard for distributed transaction handling. For more information, visit: http://www.opengroup.org
DTC	Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator	The transaction manager used in Windows environments. DTC is supported in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP. For more information, visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library
Application Server	N/A	A program that handles all application operations between users and an organization's business applications or databases.
MTS	Microsoft Transaction Server	The Microsoft application server
EJB	Enterprise JavaBeans	The framework for application servers in the Java environment.