Here is an alphabetical list of abbreviations and acronyms used in various places in this site. This page can be used as an index to many technology since most of them have their own abbreviation.

I don't think we have to write every possible abbreviation here, since there are excellent acronym/abbreviation search engines around. For example, see the Acronym and Abbreviation Server. --Janne

AFAIK = As Far As I Know

Ant = Another Neat Tool, project build tool

ASAP = As Soon As Possible

HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language

i18n = internationalization (i + 18 char + n)

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

JSP = Java Server Pages

SQL = Structured (or Standard) Query Language

UML = Unified Modeling Language

XMI = XML Metadata Interchange

XML = eXtensible Markup Language

XP = Extreme Programming

XSL = eXtensible Stylesheet Language

YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary, this usually means that the given thing has worked but it might not work in your system.

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