Glossary
WSO2 Carbon Platform
The 100% open source, component-based WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform enables developers to rapidly orchestrate a broad range of business and technical solutions that integrate well with legacy, packaged and SaaS applications.
 API
An application-programming interface (API) is a set of programming instructions and specifications defined for the purpose of communication and interaction between Web-based software components.
SOAP
An XML-based, extensible message envelope format, with "bindings" to underlying protocols. The primary protocols are HTTP and HTTPS, although bindings for others, including SMTP and XMPP, have been written.
Management Console
WSO2 Management Console is a Web-based control panel which enables system administrators to interact with a running WSO2 API Manager instance without touching any underlying configuration files.
GUI
Graphical User Interface is a graphical view through which users can invoke and control back-end functions.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable, simple form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification.