Internet - a worldwide network of computers that allows the "sharing" or "networking" of information at remote sites from other academic institutions, research institutes, private companies, government agencies, and individuals.

Web Publishing is a term that refers to using Web services as a query mechanism against local databases. These data services publish databases as Web services in an XML format. Once these data services are deployed, they can be used in a number of ways such as populating Web sites, synchronizing data between sites, viewing data in a Web service client, or building new sources of data into an integrated application. In other words, Web publishing is a specific subset of the many possible types of Web services. Other Web service types include data submission, security, quality assurance, notification and status.

A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer.^[1] Programming languages, like natural languages, are defined by syntactic and semantic rules which describe their structure and meaning respectively. Many programming languages have some form of written specification of their syntax and semantics; some are defined only by an official implementation.