While Apache continues to rule the web server roost, a host of lighter and zippier web and application servers may now be a better choice to host your high-performance web-based apps. They focus on ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...

Developers in search of a Java application server have no shortage of options to consider. But before any enterprise selects and ultimately adopts a Java application server for development and ...

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 ...

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

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 ...

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 (JEE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called the ...

A Java Web application often uses a SQL Server database. SQL Server now comes bundled with a reporting tool, Reporting Services. RS has generated a lot of attention among developers since it first ...