Glossary

This is a glossary of terms that often appear in discussion about multimedia transmissions. Most of the terms are described and linked to its wikipedia, RFC or W3C relevant documents. Some of the terms are specific to kurento.

HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

See also

RFC 2616

JAVA
Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible
JSON
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is designed to be easy to understand and write for humans and easy to parse for machines.
JSON-RPC
JSON-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol encoded in JSON. JSON-RPC allows for notifications and for multiple calls to be sent to the server which may be answered out of order.
Kurento
Kurento is a platform for the development of multimedia enabled applications. Kurento is the Esperanto term for the English word ‘stream’. We chose this name because we believe the Esperanto principles are inspiring for what the multimedia community needs: simplicity, openness and universality. Kurento is open source, released under Apache 2.0, and has several components, providing solutions to most multimedia common services requirements. Those components include: Kurento Media Server, Kurento API, Kurento Protocol, and Kurento Client.
Kurento API
Kurento API is an object oriented API to create media pipelines to control media. It can be seen as and interface to Kurento Media Server. It can be used from the Kurento Protocol or from Kurento Clients.
Kurento Client
A Kurento Client is a programming library (Java or JavaScript) used to control Kurento Media Server from an application. For example, with this library, any developer can create a web application that uses Kurento Media Server to receive audio and video from the user web browser, process it and send it back again over Internet. Kurento Client exposes the Kurento API to app developers.
Kurento Protocol
Communication between KMS and clients by means of JSON-RPC messages. It is based on WebSocket that uses JSON-RPC V2.0 messages for making requests and sending responses.
KMS
Kurento Media Server
Kurento Media Server is the core element of Kurento since it responsible for media transmission, processing, loading and recording.
Maven
Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects.
Sphinx

Documentation generation system used for Brandtalk documentation.

Spring Boot
Spring Boot is Spring’s convention-over-configuration solution for creating stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can “just run”.[17] It takes an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss
TCP
A reliable IP transport protocol. TCP communication ensures that no packets are lost in transit. As such, it is most useful in low-bandwidth or unreliable environments. Examples are slow WANs or packet radio networks.
UUID
Universally Unique IDentifier, also known as Globally Unique Identifier (GUID). In the context of the distributed computing environment, unique means Practically unique. It is not guaranteed to be unique because the identifiers have a finite size (16-octet number).
WebSocket
WebSockets
WebSocket specification (developed as part of the HTML5 initiative) defines a full-duplex single socket connection over which messages can be sent between client and server.
WSS
WebSockets Secure
WebSocket specification (developed as part of the HTML5 initiative) defines a full-duplex single socket connection over which messages can be sent between client and server.