(1) In the EJB development environment, the specification of how an enterprise bean's container-managed persistent fields correspond to columns in a relational database table or other persistent storage.
(2) A named collection of objects, symbols, submaps, and their relationships, all of which represent the network topology.
(3) In BMS, a format established for a page or a portion of a page, or a set of screen format descriptions. A map relates program variables to the positions in which their values appear on a display device. A map contains other formatting information such as field attributes. A map describes constant fields and their position on the display, the format of input and output fields, the attributes of constant and variable fields, and the symbolic names of variable fields.
(4) An entity that contains the Java code to specify how to transform attributes from one or more source business objects to one or more destination business objects. A map either converts from an application-specific business object to a generic business object (outbound map) or from a generic business object to an application-specific business object (inbound map).
(5) A specialized task that transforms data from one structure to another.
(6) To correlate fields in a Java class to columns in a relational database table or other persistent storage.