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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.
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 Community Edition. 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 Community Edition 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 Community Edition. It can be used standalone or it can be embedded in CMIS-SQL using the contains() predicate function. SkyVault Community Edition 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 REST API
The SkyVault REST API lets you access content in a repository, and in SkyVault Community Edition 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 Community Edition 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 Community Edition.

API
See Application Programming Interface.
Application Programming Interface
SkyVault Community Edition 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.