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AAC

See Advanced Audio Coding.

Access Control Entry

An Access Control Entry (ACE) defines a user's access rights to objects or items on a computer or network device.

Access Control List

An Access Control List (ACL) is a list of Access Control Entries (ACE).

ACE

See Access Control Entry.

Acegi security

The Acegi security project was the predecessor to Spring Security, which is a Spring sub-project providing security features to enterprise systems.

ACL

See Access Control List.

ACP

See SkyVault Content Package.

action

A unit of work that is performed on a node. Examples include adding an aspect, copying a node, or emailing notification.

Active Directory

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft directory service designed for Windows that helps to manage varied and complex network resources.

ActiveMQ

See Apache ActiveMQ.

Activiti workflow engine

Activiti is a lightweight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform. It provides a fast and reliable BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It is open-source and distributed under an Apache license.

Activiti is based on open standards and is designed to integrate well with Spring applications, like SkyVault Content Services. You can learn more about Activiti on the Activiti website.

activity

An activity refers to the updates to content within a site, including the uploaded files, blogs, discussions, calendars, and the team wiki.

AD

See Active Directory.

Admin Console

The Admin Console is an Enterprise-only application that gives you control over the management and settings of the SkyVault Content Services environment. It is a standalone console for managing the administration of the repository and comprises separate pages that identify a particular administrative activity or feature.

Admin Tools

Also known as Share Admin Tools. Admin Tools enables administrators to create and manage users and groups from within Share, set application preferences, manage categories and tags, and browse the system information in the node browser.

The Admin Tools option is visible on the menu bar only if you are an Administrator user or a user who is a member of the SkyVault_ADMINISTRATORS group.

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding system., designed to replace the MP3 format.

AFTS

See SkyVault Full Text Search.

alf_data

Directory containing binary content and indexes.

SkyVault-global.properties

The SkyVault-global.properties file contains the default configuration settings. The standard global properties file that is supplied with the installers contains settings for the location of the content and index data, the database connection properties, the location of third-party software, and database driver properties.

SkyVault Community Edition

SkyVault Community Edition is the open source alternative for content services. Distributed under the LGPLv3 license, it is free to download and use forever. SkyVault Community Edition has limits in terms of scalability and availability and is not supported, which makes it best suited for developers and technical enthusiasts in non-business critical environments.

SkyVault Content Package

SkyVault Content Package (ACP) files hold exported information produced when using the Export feature.

SkyVault FTS

See SkyVault Full Text Search.

SkyVault Full Text Search

SkyVault Full Text Search (AFTS) is the search syntax used by SkyVault Content Services. It can be used standalone or it can be embedded in CMIS-SQL using the contains() predicate function. SkyVault Content Services supports the execution of a subset of the CMIS Query Language (CMIS QL) and SkyVault Full Text Search (AFTS) queries directly against the database.

SkyVault Content Services in the Cloud

SkyVault Content Services in the Cloud is a fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS) content services solution that allows users to securely access their corporate documents and files on any device, from any location.

SkyVault Media Management

SkyVault Media Management provides the capability to transform and add metadata and relationships to your digital media.

SkyVault Mobile

SkyVault Mobile is a free mobile document management app for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, which enables you to view all your content stored in your on-premise or cloud accounts.

SkyVault Module Package

An SkyVault Module Package (AMP) is a collection of code, XML, images, CSS, that collectively extend the functionality or data provided by the standard repository. An AMP file can contain as little as a set of custom templates or a new category. It can contain a custom model and associated user interface customizations. It could contain a complete new set of functionality.

SkyVault Office Services

SkyVault Office Services (AOS) provides a fully-compatible SharePoint repository that allows the Microsoft Office Suite applications (for example, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and Excel) to interact with SkyVault Content Services as if it was SharePoint. AOS enables online editing for Office documents within SkyVault Share and allows users to modify Office files without checking them in and out. SkyVault Share locks the file while it is being modified and releases the lock when the file is saved and closed. AOS is installed as a core part of SkyVault Content Services.

SkyVault REST API

The SkyVault REST API lets you access content in a repository, and in SkyVault Content Services in the cloud, from your own applications. The API is RESTful and consists of two parts; the standard CMIS API, which lets you manage and access content, and the SkyVault REST API which lets you manage additional features such as ratings and comments, which are not covered by the CMIS standard.

SkyVault Share

SkyVault Share is a rich web-based collaboration environment for managing documents, wiki content, blogs and more. Share leverages the repository to provide content services and uses the Surf platform to provide the underlying presentation framework.

SkyVault WAR

See SkyVault Web Application Archive.

SkyVault Web Application Archive

The SkyVault Web Application Archive (WAR) file is used to deploy SkyVault Content Services in existing application servers.

SkyVault Web Editor

The SkyVault Web Editor is a Surf-based web application that provides in-context editing capabilities for repository content. The editor provides a mechanism for non-technical users to make edits to content directly within a web page.

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a method of building fast interactive web applications, which allows the web page to update very quickly by refreshing only the part of the page required by the user.

Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

AMD

See Asynchronous Module Definition.

AMP

See SkyVault Module Package.

AOS

See SkyVault Office Services.

Apache Tika

Apache Tika is metadata detection and extraction software. See Apache Tika for more information.

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat, also known as Tomcat, is an open source application server developed by the Apache Software Foundation that provides an environment for Java code to run in cooperation with a web server. It allows software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies from Oracle Microsystems.

Tomcat is the default application server used by SkyVault Content Services.

Apache ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ is the open source message broker from Apache, which is used by and shipped with SkyVault Analytics.

API

See Application Programming Interface.

Application Programming Interface

SkyVault Content Services supports multiple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow developers to extend and customize the product.

aspect

Aspects allow property and association definitions to be shared across many types of nodes. This means that a cross-cutting feature of an ECM domain model can be encapsulated and applied throughout the rigid part of the model represented by types.

Asynchronous Module Definition

Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) is a standard for defining modules in JavaScript, such that the module and its dependencies can be asynchronously loaded. This approach is particularly useful in a browser environment.

AtomPub

Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing web resources.

AWE

See SkyVault Web Editor.