Jackson method
A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.

JAM
Just Another Metafile. A document markup scheme with a processor to produce LaTeX LaTeX, HTML HTML or RTF RTF output - . ftp://bioftp.unibas.ch/archive_data/survival/jam/documentation/JAMCTS

JANET
The Joint Academic NETwork which links U.K. academic and research institutes.

JARGON -
A general term used to talk about the many abbreviations used on the net. Here are some of those terms and their meaningsLOL - Laughing Out Loud
ROFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing
FYI - For your Information
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
TTYL - Talk To You Later
BBL - Be Back Later

Java
An object-oriented language developed by Sun Microsystems. Java applets can be embedded within a Web page. JavaScript has similar syntax, but is not the same as Java.

JAVA -
An object oriented computer language which was developed by SUN Microsystems for the purpose of enhancing the capabilities of Web pages. At the time of this writing the only browsers which support JAVA are Sun's HotJava and Navigator 2.0 or higher and Explorer 3.0. JAVA programs are called Applets

Java
An Object-Oriented Object-Oriented language from Sun, now widely used in WWW WWW browsers - . /Java

JAVA
Java was developed as a response to problems programming in C++. It is intended to be a "simple, object oriented, cross-platform, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic" programming language.

JAVASCRIPT
JavaScript is a mini version of Java. The advantages to JavaScript over Java are: simplified Doesn't have to be compiled the source code resides within your HTML document

JavaScript
A scripting language for Web documents, loosely based on Java’s syntax, developed by Netscape. JavaScript is now supported by the most popular browsers.

JAVASCRIPT -
Formerly called LiveScript, this language was developed by Netscape. Patterned after JAVA, it's primary difference is that the program is embedded into an HTML file instead of being an executable which loads when you load a web page.

JAZELLE
A data management system for HEP from SLAC.

JEDI
Joint Electronic Document Interchange

JEPI
Joint Electronic Payment Initiative. A joint project between W3C W3C and CommerceNet in the field of electronic payment using WWW WWW.

JFIF
A data stream-oriented file format used for transmitting JPEG JPEG encoded bitmap data - . /Graphics

job
A program you started from the shell that can start, stop, and move between the foreground and background.

Job
An administrator-defined activity that performs a specific duty; a set of tasks with a pre-selected set of managed node subscribers.

Joining
The phase in which the LE Client establishes its control connections to the LE Server.

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
A group of photographic experts who, finding the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) /g format too limiting for true quality static video, developed their own. Also referred to as JPEG (or JPG for those systems with only a three-character extension), this format provides for thousands of colors but no interlacing or transparency.

JOOP
Journal of Object-Oriented Object-Oriented Programming.

JPEG -
Another commonly found graphic format on web pages. JPEG formatted graphics are especially good at handling photographs.

JPEG
A standardized image compression compression mechanism. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the original name of the committee that wrote the standard. JPEG is designed for compressing either full-color or gray-scale digital images of "natural", real-world scenes. It does not work so well on non-realistic images, such as cartoons or line drawings. JPEG does not handle black-and-white (1-bit-per-pixel) images, or motion picture compression. Standards for compressing those types of images are being worked on by other committees, named JBIG and MPEG - . /Graphics

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group: An ISO Standards group that defines how to compress still pictures

JPEG
See Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) /.

JPG
See Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) /.

jpg
See JPEG JPEG.

JSA
Japanese Standards Association

JSD
Jackson System Development - . /Jackson

JTC
Joint Technical Committee (of ISO and IEC).