Some of the commonly used acronyms in NetWeaver ABAP : ABAP - Advanced Business Application Programming ALE - Application Link Enabling ALV - ABAP List Viewer BAdI - Business Add In BAPI - Business Application Programming Interface BDC - Batch Data Communication BPEL - Business Process Execution Language (for Web Services) BPM - Business Process Management BOR - Business Object Repository SPOOL - Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-line BSP- Business Server Page CAF - Composite Application Framework CCMS - Computing Center Managemet System EAI - Enterprise Application Integration EDI - Electronic Data Interchange ETL - Extract Transform and Load FS-Functional Specifications(Function Spects) IDoc - Intermediate Document IS-Industry specifications JCA - J2EE Connector Architecture JCo - Java Connector LDB- Logical Database
LSMW - Legacy System Migration Workbench LUW- Logical Unit Of Work NW - NetWeaver RFC - Remote Function Call SLD - System Landscape Directory SLA-Service Level Agreement SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol TCODE - Transaction code *TS-*Technical Specification(Technical Spects) TMS - Transport Management System UCCnet - Uniform/Universal Code Council network UDDI - Universal Description, Discovery and Integration WSDL - Web Services Description Language (XML format for describing network services) XML - eXtensible Markup Language