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 ...

Too often, the success of a web site brings its doom. After a good publicity blitz, or a healthy growth of its popularity, the number of users visiting a site becomes very large. Then, at certain ...

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 ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

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. A Web ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...