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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Partitioning, a technology used in mainframe computers, is making its way into mid- and high-end Unix systems where corporate users employ it to isolate and protect applications from each other, ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. – FedEx Freight recently put a new face on its Web operations, and so far the company likes what it sees. The large-volume trucking division of FedEx recently installed 15 Red Hat Linux ...