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 ...

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 ...

This guide is designed to explain what a Web App or Web Application is and what they are used for. A web application, often referred to as a web app, is an application that is accessed via a web ...

MuleSoft this week is launching Cloudcat, which makes the Apache Tomcat Web application server available as a cloud-based service. Available on the the Amazon Web Services and GoGrid cloud platforms, ...

Google’s web crawlers have come a long way in recent years in their ability to fetch and execute JavaScript. However, JavaScript integration remains tricky when setting up the front end of a web app.

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 ...