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 access control technology from OpenNetwork Technologies Inc. gives Web-based users the opportunity to click once to access a bevy of corporate applications while enabling administrators to discard ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — SAP AG plans to offer a Web application server that’s compliant with Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), a move that it claims will help users tie their software to other e-business ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

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 ...

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 ...

In my new day job at Alpha Software, one of my responsibilities is to explore ways to expand the reach of the company’s products. One of the first projects to fall into my lap was load testing a ...