Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links

APP

APP

1. Asynchronous Pluggable Protocol. An Asynchronous Pluggable Protocol is a means for a developer to define a custom protocol and a handler that will handle that protocol. This provides a means to extend Internet Explorer to handle new protocols.

For more information see:

• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa767743.aspx - Asynchronous Pluggable Protocols, developer documentation from the Microsoft Developer Network.

2. Common abbreviation for Application.