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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Novell Inc. earlier this month bundled the open-source, J2EE-compliant JBoss Application Server with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, giving application developers a built-in deployment option.

What is the best application server? The answer depends on what an enterprise is looking for. Compare Apache Tomcat to these four offerings to see which Java app server fits. Continue Reading ...

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 ...

Iona has ditched its proprietary J2EE application server in favour of open-source software from JBoss Group. The deal, which will see Iona focus its development efforts on its other integration ...