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.

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Thin Server Architecture, SOFEA, and other related approaches to applications are primarily about separating client and server concerns and ultimately placing the "View" code in the client.

Standard & Poor's needed to find the right application server software to perform the business logic for its customized Web sites--and its Web services business. Read why--through two rounds of ...

Four months after releasing the first version of its e-commerce software, Oracle is upgrading its 9i Application Server (9iAS) product for conducting transactions over the Web.

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side ...