| Acronym | Definition |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPAN | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheet |
| CSV | Comma Separated Value |
| DBI | Database Interface |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model |
| DNS | Domain Name Server |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question(s) |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| IMAP4 | Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JRMP | Java Remote Method Protocol |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages |
| OO | Object-Oriented |
| ORPC | Object Remote Procedure Call |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| Perl | Practical Extraction and Reporting Language |
| PHP | PPHP HyperText Processor |
| PI | Processing Instruction |
| POC | Point of Contact |
| PPM | Perl Package Manager |
| RFC | Request for Comment |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SAX2 | Simple API for XML version 2 |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UDDI | Universal Description Discovery and Integration |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| UTF | UCS Transformation Format |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| XHTML | eXtensible HyperText Markup Language |
| XLink | XML Linking Language |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
| XML-RPC | XML Remote Procedure Call |
| XPointer | XML Pointer Language |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSL-FO | eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects |
| XSLT | eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation |
