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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. last week announced an upgraded application server that will support multiple operating systems, raising the ante on an effort to broaden the use of its middleware beyond ...

The industrial-strength reputation—and price tag—of Oracle's database business precedes its entry into application servers. With built-in robust clustering, security, and business intelligence, ...

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 ...