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DBMS::   Database management system.

DC:    Distributed component.

Dependency list:   The dependency list of a component Foo identifies the set of all the components on which Foo depends, as well as the detailed software artifacts implementing each dependency. See also component dependency list, detailed dependency list, closured list, and versioned dependency list.

Detailed dependency list:   A dependency list showing all required software artifacts.

Deploy:   To ship, distribute, test operationally, and install. This term covers everything from release by development of a tested component to its live running on possibly multiple systems.

Dimension:   A dimension (as in "the five dimensions of the business component approach") is a specific combination of viewpoints, patterns, and concepts that is useful in thinking about the business component approach. The approach itself can be thought of as consisting of material, temporal, and conceptual aspects. Each of the five dimensions is a particular way of "viewing" (or better, thinking about) the business component approach.

Distributed component:    A design pattern for an autonomous software artifact that can be deployed as a pluggable binary component into a run-time component execution environment. This design pattern is normally implemented using a commercially available component implementation technology. When a DC is implemented, the resulting software component is called a distributed component implementation. The term DC is normally used for both the design pattern and the implementation, unless the context requires a distinction to be made.

Distribution tier:   See "tier."