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 ...

James Ward spoke at JavaOne 2012 Conference about Client Server Application Development with HTML5 and Java. InfoQ spoke with James about his presentation and this application development trend.

Thin Server Architecture, SOFEA, and other related approaches to applications are primarily about separating client and server concerns and ultimately placing the "View" code in the client.

Web server enhancements, providing a tightly integrated Web and application server architecture and eliminating the need for a separate Web server Security enhancements, including improved ...

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.

For distributed Web servers, load balancing is a core aspect of an enterprise applications ability to scale, both up and out. High scalability requires Web server load balancing automation.

The ActiveGrid Application Builder and Grid Application Server are now available for download under the popular open source Apache Software License 2.0.

The platform "makes it easy to deploy and operate applications based on a microservice architecture by getting the API right and provides a good level of abstraction," Guiu states.