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 ...

COMMENTARY--The rise of internetworking was fueled by the use of network-level security technologies such as SSL, IPSec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise network ...

Editor's Note: This web services development tutorial was published in 2001, and remains a very popular article on TheServerSide. This article still provides great value, but significant changes have ...

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The rise of internetworking was enabled by the use of network-level security technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer, IPsec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise ...

It’s a perfectly reasonable goal for a Web service toolkit and runtime engine: allow a developer to take a server interface, brand it a Web service, and automatically generate some client-side proxy ...

Insurance companies calculate that Web services are a worthwhile risk for solving their systems integration woes. After 24 years of IT work in the insurance industry, Rick Laabs can clearly hear the ...

In an interview with InfoWorld’s Paul Krill at OSCON in July, Tim Bray of Sun, the co-inventor of XML, branded the SOAP stack for XML Web services “a failure.” SOAP is of course based on XML, and the ...

Start-up DataPower Technology on Tuesday upgraded its specialized hardware for improving performance of XML-reliant applications. Cambridge, Mass.-based DataPower is one of a handful of companies ...