A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

Everyone focuses on how a new breed of AJAX applications will gradually eat into Microsoft's bread-and-butter desktop application revenues, but the effect on the bottom lines at Sun, Oracle, BEA, IBM ...

Retrieving and accepting data via a dynamic Web page can be a challenge—the current technologies aren’t exactly intuitive. At the very least, the experienced Web developer will find dynamic script ...

Subtle incompatibilities between your application server and certain Java EE application components or third-party libraries can sink your ship at deployment time. In this article, René van Wijk ...

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 ...

Chances are good that the average reader thinks a Java application server basically provides an implementation of the servlet specification, probably an implementation of JavaServer Pages, and perhaps ...

Maybe i am wrong, perhaps the app server is a dying platform, i heard it straight from the product manager of JBoss recently that the world does not revolve around app servers, a seemingly innocuous ...