One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...

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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 ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called ...

Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey now. SpringSource is essentially offering a self-service, pay-as-you-go, public cloud deployment platform on which to build, run and manage the entire ...

The open source OpenXava project, which recently announced its 4.8 release, is filling a niche among enterprise developers charged with building Web apps fast. Built in Java, the OpenXava framework is ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

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 ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called the ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I'm developing a Java webapp for displaying my photos on the web. It is a simple war file that takes a hierarchy of folders and displays them as web pages with thumbnails, folder navigation ...