**ACRONYMNS AND ABBREVIATIONS**

ADE - Eclipse/AWIPS Development Environment

AMQP - Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol

API - Application Program Interface

ARSR - Air Route Surveillance Radar

ASR - Aggregation Service Routers

AWIPS - Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

CAVE - Common AWIPS Visualization Environment

CONUS - Conterminous/Contiguous/Commercial United States

COTS - Commercial off the shelf

D2D - Display Two Dimensional

DAO - Data Access Object

DVB - Digital Video Broadcast

EDEX - Enterprise Data Exchange

ESB - Enterprise Service Bus

FOSS - Free and Open Source Software

FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name

GFE - Graphical Forecast Editor

GFS - Global Forecast System

GNU - GNUs Not Unix

GRIB - Gridded Binary

GUI - Graphical User Interface

HDF5 - Hierarchical Data Format 5

HQL - Hibernate Query Language

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

JAR - Java Archive

JAXB - Java Architecture for XML Binding

JEP - Java Embedded Python

JMS - Java Messaging Service

JVM - Java Virtual Machine

JTS - Java Transaction Service

LDM - Local Data Manager

LSB - Linux Standards Base

MOS - Model Output Statistics

MPE - Multi-Programming Executive

NWS - National Weather Service

OCONUS - Outside Conterminous/Contiguous/Commercial United States

OSGi - Open Services Gateway initiative

PDO - Plug-in Data Object

PYPIES - Python Processing Isolated Enhanced Storage

QPID - Queue Processor Interface Daemon

RCP - Rich Client Platform

RGB - Red, Green, Blue

RPM - Redhat Package Manager

SOA - Service Oriented Architecture

SBN - Satellite Broadcast Network

SEDA - Staged Event Driven Architecture

SHEF - Standard Hydrometeorology Exchange

SQL - Structured Query Language

SSDD - Software System Design Description

SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

UI - User Interface

URI - Universal Resource Locator

UUID - Universally Unique Identifier

VIZ - Visualization

XML - eXtensible Markup Language

YUM - Yellowdog Updater Modified