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 ...

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 ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

In today’s world of larger-then-ever software applications, users still expect real-time data and software that can process data at blazing speeds. With the advent of broadband access, users have ...

A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware, ...

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 ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

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 ...