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 ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

A recent Forrester Research Inc. report states that while Oracle Corp. sits at the top of the application server platform heap, Microsoft's technology is running close behind. In preparing the report, ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The application server space is heating up once again as ...