What is CORBA ?

Common Object Request Broker Architecture. A
language-independent distributed object model
specified by the OMG.

What is conversational state ?

The field values of a session bean plus the transitive
closure of the objects reachable from the bean's
fields. The transitive closure of a bean is defined in
terms of the serialization protocol for the Java
programming language, that is, the fields that would
be stored by serializing the bean instance.

What is context root ?

A name that gets mapped to the document root of a Web
application.

What is context attribute ?

An object bound into the context associated with a
servlet.

What is content ?

In an XML document, the part that occurs after the
prolog, including the root element and everything it
contains.

What is container-managed sign-on ?

The mechanism whereby security information needed for
signing on to a resource is supplied by the container.

What is container-managed persistence ?

The mechanism whereby data transfer between an entity
bean's variables and a resource manager is managed by
the entity bean's container.