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Glossary of Terms

A | B | C | E | J | M | P | S 
A
API
Application Programming Interface
Application (or Applet)
A software product that uses (includes) the POP3 component
B
Bean
A bean is a JavaBeans component. It is an independent, reusable software module. Beans may be visible objects, like AWT components, or invisible objects, like queues and stacks. A builder/integration tool manipulates Beans to create applets and applications.
Note : This is not strictly true with the POP3 suite of beans which can work only as part of an application and not an applet due to security restrictions that apply to applets.
C
Component
A piece of software isolated into a discrete, easily reusable structure.
E
E-Mail
Correspondence in the form of messages transmitted between user terminals over a computer network.
J
Java
An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems. Java programs are compiled into class files that can run on any computer platform that has a Java Virtual Machine.
JavaBeans
A portable, platform-independent component model, based on Java. The model allows creation of small, reusable, software components. A visual builder program combines components from different sources to create applications quickly and easily.
M
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
MIME , the multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions, is a freely available set of specifications that offers a way to interchange text in languages with different character sets, and multi-media e-mail among many different computer systems that use Internet mail standards.
P
POP3 (Post Office Protocol)
Post Office Protocol is intended to permit a workstation to dynamically access a mail drop on a server i.e to retrieve mail that the server is holding for it.
S
Socks Server
Facilitates connection outside the firewall