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 ...

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail.

Web Server Environment This shows the server-side processes that can take place in a Web server (HTTP server) and application server. Since both can perform similar tasks, there is some overlap.

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.

How to set up a safe and secure Web server Learn a lot by doing it yourself instead of going with a hosting company.

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

The new version of the software will support BEA Systems Inc.’s WebLogic application server and IBM’s WebSphere application server, as well as the company’s own Sun ONE Web server and ...