The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

Customers considering company's idea of running Java programs on specialized machines can now factor price into deliberations. Photos: Java power in a pool Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

What is the best application server? The answer depends on what an enterprise is looking for. Compare Apache Tomcat to these four offerings to see which Java app server fits. Continue Reading ...

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat. Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source ...

Three open source application servers are expected to be certified J2EE-compatible by year’s end, meaning that lower-cost alternatives to commercial products from BEA Systems, IBM, and Oracle are on ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest desktop and server versions of the Java Runtime ...

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

Technological trends are often short-lived and have no lasting effect. New programming languages show up every year, ...