| A | B |
| CORBA | ”A language independent, distributed object model and specification for a distributed applications development environment. It is specified by the Object Management Group (OMG).” |
| EOL | ”The stage for the end of a project. EOL consists of carrying out all the necessary tasks to ensure that the customers and employees are aware that a product is no longer sold and supported and that a new product is available.” |
| FCS | ”The implementation stage of the PLC is often referred to as the first customer ship in the computer industry.” |
| GUI | ”A program interface that takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities to make the program easier to use. For example |
| JVM | ”A software, an execution engine, that executes the byte codes in Java class files on a microprocessor.” |
| OOAD | ”An approach that models a system as a group of interacting objects.” |
| PLC | ”Represents an industry-accepted set of stages for the development of a new product. There are seven stages." |
| RMI | ”A distributed object model for Java program to Java program" |
| UML | ”Standards used to draw use case diagrams.” |