To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

Web applications are able to protect your Web assets from attack – especially websites. Discover the best Web application firewalls, as we explore the market and recommend our top choices. Websites ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

When Java developers start talking about application servers, Tomcat is often thrown into the mix. After all, it’s one of the most popular options for lightweight development scenarios, and in many ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Despite the relative maturity of the Web, it is still the most hostile environment imaginable. Given the vast array of threats that exist online, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

Ada isn’t a well-known language to web-application developers. However, it has several strengths that makes the final application scalable, robust, and more secure than other languages. A web ...

Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet ...