- Industry: Computer
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An act whereby one principal authorizes another principal to use its identity or privileges with some restrictions.
Industry:Computer
An application that allows manipulation of data (e.g., what-if analysis and forecasting) from other applications. This is a type of Decision Support System (DSS) that creates new authoritative data that can be used in other operational applications.
Industry:Computer
An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications are two-tier (client-server), three-tier (client-middleware-server), and multitier (client-multiple middleware-multiple servers).
Industry:Computer
An API is a semi-formal description of standard inputs and outputs supported by a particular application, service, or protocol.
Industry:Computer
An act whereby one entity assumes the identity and privileges of another entity without restrictions and without any indication visible to the recipients of the impersonator's calls that delegation has taken place. Impersonation is a case of simple delegation.
Industry:Computer
An abstract logical grouping of users that is defined by the application assembler. When an application is deployed, the roles are mapped to security identities, such as principals or groups, in the operational environment.
In the J2EE server authentication service, a role is an abstract name for permission to access a particular set of resources. A role can be compared to a key that can open a lock. Many people might have a copy of the key; the lock doesn't care who you are, only that you have the right key.
Industry:Computer
Using two words to represent a number in order to keep or increase precision. On SPARC? workstations, double precision is the 64-bit IEEE double precision.
Industry:Computer
Access control list (ACL) provides greater control over file and folder permissions. ACL enables you to define file or folder permissions for the owner, owner's group, others, and specific users and groups. It lists default permissions for each of these categories.
Industry:Computer
