This tip will show you how to implement and configure new authentication mechanisms in the GlassFish v2 servlet container. GlassFish v2 includes implementations of a number of HTTP layer ...

The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, with improvements eyed in areas such as scalability and security, Apache personnel ...

The first two articles in the Hello, OSGi series have laid the groundwork for understanding how the OSGi service platform works. In this final installment, you’ll learn how OSGi’s pluggable, component ...

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 ...

HTTP is a stateless protocol optimized for request-reply style text transfer. An attempt to engage it for generic use, such as may be required by common cooperation metaphors like stateful session, ...

A Jakarta EE application server that provides the facilities for executing Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs). Some EJB application servers may provide containers for JSPs and servlets, while others require ...

Scalability and security to be enhanced in Tomcat 7; Apache also is set to take over the Subversion software configuration management project The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is ...