Since I am new to the SAP and don't have any related business background I started a month ago to familiarize myself with products and tools provided by the SAP. During my internship here in India my main topic will be the Composition Environment what fits to my technical background which is basically Java, Java EE5 and in general developing with Eclipse. Learning to work with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio was quite easy for me and I really started to enjoy it. Mainly I did a lot of tutorials on the different aspects of the CE like CAF, WD, VC, EJB`s and so on to get a rough overview and a better basic understanding what the technology is all about. During these exercises I came up against many unclear expressions and SAP slang words which often were used as acronyms. Getting along with all these stuff was my main pain point. I searched for a while on the internet to face this problem but couldn't find a good site which offered an overview I was looking for. So I had to do a time consumption research on each single acronym. To fill this gap of a missing acronym library I collected everything which ran into me. Here is the result of my efforts which I wanted to share with you maybe it helps somebody in a similar situation like me one month ago. For anybody interested in a topic I also prepared a link to further information's just click on the word you are looking for.

• ADS: Adobe Document Service

• ACF: Active Component Framework

• BI: Business Intelligence

• BAPI: Business Application Programming Interface

• BPX: Business Process Expert

• BPM: Business Process Management

• CAF: Composite Application Framework

• CRM: Customer Relationship Management

• CMS: Change Management Service

• CM: Component Model

• CBS: Component Build Service

• DDCI: Data Dictionary

• DTR: Design Time Repository

• EJB: Enterprise Java Bean

• ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning

• ESP: Embedded Server Pages

• ESR: Enterprise Service Repository

• GML: Generic Modeling Language

• GP: Guided Procedures

• HCM: Human Capital Management

• IFbA: Interactive Forms by Adobe

• JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface

• KM: Knowledge Management

• LCM: Life Cycle Management

• MDM: Master Data Management

• NWDS: Netweaver Developer Studio 

• NWDI: Netweaver Development Infrastructure

• POJO: Plain Old Java Object

• PI: Process Integration

• PPF: Post Processing Framework

• RPC: Remote Procedure Call

• RFC: Remote Function Call

• R/3: Real Time Data Processing

• SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol

• SOA: Service-oriented Architecture

• SDM: Software Deployment Manager

• SDIC: Serverside Development Infrastructure Client

• SLD:  System Landscape Directory

• UDDI: Universal Description Discovery and Integration

• VC: Visual Composer

• WD: Web Dynpro

• WSDL: Web Service Description Language

• WDJ: Web Dynpro for Java

• XI: Exchange Infrastructure