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. A Web ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Web clients should never hit an application server directly. Instead, all web-based requests ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...