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W3C

See World Wide Web Consortium.

WBEM

See Web-Based Enterprise Management.

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)

The Microsoft implementation of the Common Information Model.

webclass

A component used in IIS applications. A webclass resides on the Web server and is used to intercept HTTP requests, process associated Visual Basic code, and return a response to the browser. Webclasses contain webitems (usually HTML documents) that can be sent to the browser in response to requests.

WebDAV

An acronym for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning, an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocol (RFC 2518) that extends HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). WebDAV enables properties and data to be sent and retrieved as XML streams within the HTTP packet setup.

well-formed XML

XML that meets the requirements listed in the W3C Recommendation for XML 1.0: It contains one or more elements; it has a single document element, with any other elements properly nested under it; each of the parsed entities referenced directly or indirectly within the document is well-formed. A well-formed XML document does not necessarily include a DTD.

Win32

The application programming interface in Microsoft® Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT®, and Windows CE. Win32® enables applications to use the 32-bit instructions available on 80386 and higher processors.

Windows DNA

See Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.

Windows NT Challenge/Response

An authentication method that provides a secure and transparent logon procedure between clients and servers located in the same domain or in trusted domains. In a challenge-and-response sequence, the client machine uses its currently established logon information to identify itself to the server. The user receives no request for these credentials. All communication occurs between the client and server, using multiple secure and encrypted communications.

Windows Scripting Host

The Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Host (WSH) is a language-independent scripting host for 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system platforms. Microsoft provides both Visual Basic Scripting Edition and JavaScript scripting engines with WSH. Windows Scripting Host enables scripts to be executed directly on the Windows desktop or command console, without the need to embed those scripts in an HTML document. WSH is one of three hosts provided by Microsoft for running these scripting languages across the Windows platform, the others being Internet Explorer, and Internet Information Services (IIS).

WinSock

Name commonly used for the Windows Sockets programming interface, used to provide a protocol-independent transport interface.

work item

(This term relates to Microsoft Exchange Server Routing.) Any new item in a folder is modeled as a work item until the process instance it relates to is found, or — if none is found — it is used as the basis from which to create a new process instance.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The international standards group for the World Wide Web (WWW or W3), funded by its industrial members but operated principally by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), and the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).

WSH

See Windows Scripting Host.

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