*REST*: REpresentational State Transfer (the architecture style of the Net) *XML-RPC*: XML Remote Procedure Call *SOAP*: Simple Object Access Protocol *WSDL*: Web Services Description Language *HTTP*: HyperText Transfer Protocol *UDDI*: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration *CORBA*: Common Object Request Broker Architecture *IDL*: (CORBA's) Interface Description Language *RMI*: (Java's) Remote Method Invocation *JINI*: Sun's Java-based system to network devices and applications (includes Javaspaces, JINI Extensible Remote Incovation, etc.) *SOA*: Services Oriented Architecture