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Jabber --- Javascript
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Jabber
--- To transmit meaningless data by via either networks (along communication
lines) or people (when communicating in chat).
Java --- Java is a network-oriented programming
language invented by Sun Microsystems that is specifically designed for writing programs that can be safely downloaded
to your computer through the Internet and immediately run without fear of viruses or other harm to your computer
or files. Using small Java programs (called "Applets"), Web pages can include functions such as
animations, calculators, and other fancy tricks.
We can expect to see a huge variety of features added to the Web using Java, since you can write a Java program
to do almost anything a regular computer program can do, and then include that Java program in a Web page.
See Also: Applet
Javascript
--- A scripting language for Web
pages. Scripts written with JavaScript can be embedded
into HTML documents. With JavaScript you have many possibilities for enhancing your Web page with interesting elements.
It makes it easy to respond to user initiated events (such as form input). Some effects that are now possible with
JavaScript were once only possible with CGI. Javascript gives
a developer the ability to create really sophisitcated Web pages.
Some computer languages are compiled, which means that you run your program through a compiler, which performs
a one-time translation of the human-readable program into a binary that the computer can execute. JavaScript is
an interpreted language, which means that the computer must evaluate the program each time it is run.
Java and JavaScript are not the same thing. JavaScript was designed to resemble Java, which in turn looks
a lot like C and C++. The difference is that Java was built as a general purpose object language, while JavaScript
is intended to provide a quicker and simpler language for enhancing Web pages and servers.
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Jumpers --- Jughead
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Jumpers ---
jumpers are small devices that complete a circuit between two pins of a multi-pin header, specifying
various aspects about a card--for example, which IRQ, base memory address, or I/O port address to use. Jumpers
are not normally used on a card that is compliant with Plug and Play, but were common on "legacy" (pre
Plug and Play) cards.
JDK --- (Java
Development Kit) -- A software development package from Sun Microsystems that implements the basic set of tools
needed to write, test and debug Java applications and applets
See Also: Applet , Java
JPEG --- Joint
Photographic Expert Group is a method of storing an image in digital format.
Jughead --- One
of two search programs for gopherspace; based on archie.
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