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Documentation/Maemo Eclipse Tutorial/Glossary

Latest revision as of 08:08, 20 October 2010

ABI

Application Binary Interface, providing object code level compatibility.

API

Application Programming Interface, providing source code level compatibility.

applet

A small application that integrates to Hildon Desktop.

ARMEL

A name that e.g. Debian uses for the little endian ARM EABI (ABI for the ARM architecture).

Bluetooth

is an open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs).

CDT

Eclipse C/C++ Development Toolkit.

CIFS

Common Internet File System (also known as Server Message Block, SMB) operates as an application-layer network protocol mainly used to provide shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network.

CVS

Concurrent Versions System.

devkit

The part of Maemo SDK that contains software development tools. Maemo SDK contains multiple devkits.

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a computer networking protocol used by hosts (DHCP clients) to retrieve IP address assignments and other configuration information.

DSDP

Eclipse Device Software Development Platform.

DSF

Eclipse Debugger Services Framework.

ECF

Eclipse Communication Framework.

ESbox

Eclipse product implementing integration between Eclipse IDE and Maemo SDK.

GDB

GNU Project debugger.

GUI

Graphical User Interface.

GTK

Toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces with support for cross platform compatibility.

Hildon

Application framework used in the Maemo platform. Developed by Nokia and based on GNOME/GTK+ technologies, currently in the process of becoming an upstream project in gnome.org.

Hildon Desktop

The main user interface component of Maemo Chinook, rewrite of Maemo desktop.

ID

Identifier.

IDE

Integrated Development Environment like Eclipse or QtCreator.

IP

Internet Protocol is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.

JDK

Java Development Kit.

JRE

Java Runtime Environment.

JVM

Jave Virtual Machine.

ltrace

Debugging utility to monitor the library calls used by a program and all the signals it receives. It can also show system calls, used by program.

Maemo

Software platform for mobile devices developed by Nokia, based on GNU/Linux and GNOME/GTK+ technologies. It includes proprietary components to make it work on the Nokia Maemo compatible device.

maemo.org

Developer community web site maintained by Nokia, main point of reference for open source and third-party developers in general.

Mica

Maemo IDE Common Architecture, Eclipse plugin development framework used by ESbox, PluThon and other Maemo Eclipse products.

NFS

Network File System is a network file system protocol allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.

OProfile

System-wide profiler for Linux systems.

OS

Operating System or sometimes Open Source.

PluThon

Eclipse product implementing on-device Python development environment.

Pydev

Python IDE for Eclipse, which can be used in Python development.

rootstrap

Part of the SDK that contains selected software components from rootfs. Rootstrap is the root file system of a target inside Scratchbox.

RSE

Eclipse Remote System Explorer.

rsync

is a software application which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate.

Samba

is a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol providing file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain.

SBRSH

Scratchbox Remote Shell remote command execution system similar to RSH and SSH and designed for slow devices and Scratchbox's special requirements in mind.

Scratchbox

cross-compilation toolkit designed to make embedded Linux application development easier and to cross-compile an entire Linux distribution.

SDK

Software Development Kit.

SSH

Secure Shell network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.

SSHFS

SSH Filesystem or Secure SHell Filesystem is a file system client that may be used on operating systems for which an implementation of FUSE is available.

TCF

Eclipse Target Communication Framework.

toolchain

Part of the SDK that contains ARM cross compilation tools, such as compiler and linker.

UI

User Interface.

USB

Universal Serial Bus is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller (usually personal computers).

Valgrind

Tool suite for debugging and profiling Linux programs.

VM

Virtual Machine.

VNC

Virtual Network Computing is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer transmiting the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another and relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

X11

X Window System is a computer software system and network protocol that provides a GUI for networked computers.

XML

eXtensible Markup Language.

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