ActionScript – scripting language used primarily Flash development.

Adobe AIR – Adobe Integrated Runtime.  A cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application

Adobe Flex – software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform.

AJAX – asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

API – is an interface defining the ways by which an application program may request services from libraries and/or operating systems. An API determines the vocabulary and calling conventions the programmer should employ to use the services. It may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes and protocols used to communicate between the requesting software and the library.

Architecture – the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them.

AVM – ActionScript Virtual Machine.  A component of the Adobe Flash Player

Eclipse – multi-language software development platform comprising an IDE and a plug-in system to extend it

EAR – An Enterprise ARchive, or EAR, is a file format used by Java EE for packaging one or more modules into a single archive so that the deployment of the various modules onto an application server happens simultaneously and coherently. It also contains XML files called deployment descriptors which describe how to deploy the modules. Maven or Ant can be used to build EAR files.

IDE – Integrated Developer Environment. software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development.

FDT – ActionScript IDE

Framework – is an abstraction in which common code providing generic functionality can be selectively overridden or specialized by user code providing specific functionality. Frameworks are similar to software libraries in that they are reusable abstractions of code wrapped in a well-defined API.

FreeMarker – Java Template Engine Library.  FreeMarker is a “template engine”; a generic tool to generate text output (anything from HTML to autogenerated source code) based on templates. It’s a Java package, a class library for Java programmers.

JSON – JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, and many others. These properties make JSON an ideal data-interchange language.

Library – is a collection of subroutines or classes used to develop software. Libraries contain code and data that provide services to independent programs. This allows the sharing and changing of code and data in a modular fashion.

MXML – Language built on top of AS.  Similar to HTML.  MXML is a XML-based user interface markup language first introduced by Macromedia in March 2004.  Application developers use MXML in combination with ActionScript to develop Rich Internet applications, with products such as Adobe Flex.

Platform – A platform might be simply defined as ‘a place to launch software’. It is an agreement that the platform provider gave to the software developer that logic code will interpret consistently as long as the platform is running on top of other platforms. Logic code includes byte code, source code, and machine code.

SDK – is typically a set of development tools that allows a software engineer to create applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar platform.

Web 2.0 – refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.