A set of software tests (atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability) that are used to ensure hardware and software stability. For example, in transaction processing, a transaction has atomicity if the operations that make up the transaction either all execute to completion, or can be made to appear never to have occurred at all. A transaction has consistency when it successfully transforms the system and the database from one valid state to another. A transaction has isolation if it is processed concurrently with other transactions and still behaves as if it were the only transaction executing in the system. (It does not interfere with other transactions and others do not interfere with it.) A transaction has durability if all the changes that it makes to the database become permanent when the transaction is committed.
Action Message
A properly packaged business action message. See also RosettaNet Business Message.
Actions Specifications
Describe the format of information that is exchanged between partners in the supply chain.
Activity
The work performed in a Business Process.
Administrative PIP
New process to inform members of updates on projects such as the Dictionaries. Admin PIPs are from RosettaNet to Partners; they are not distributed from Partner to Partner.
Architecture
The way components of a complex system fit together.
As-is Business Process Model
A graphical model of an organization’s business process showing the activities, external processes and decisions along with the information exchanged between them. An employee fulfilling a role performs each activity. External processes are performed by external entities.
Glossary - Modular
Definitions for RosettaNet Modular PIPs (XML Schema)
Allow use of complex types in such a way that a single element name can be used to represent various types in an XML document instance.
Annotation
Information for human and/or mechanical consumers. The interpretation of such information is not defined in the XML Schema specifications. The annotation element can contain one or more or elements.
Attribute (UML)
A simple, discreet piece of information that is part of a class.
Attribute (XML)
A name=”value” field within an XML element, providing information associated with that XML element.
Attribute Group
A set of attribute declarations, enabling re-use of the same set in several complex type definitions.
Attribute Group Definition
An attribute group definition is an association between a name and a set of attribute declarations, enabling re-use of the same set in several complex type definitions.
