A web server is a server designed to serve files from the local system, like Apache. A Java enterprise application server is a full-blown implementation of the Jakarta EE specification.

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the ...

As an end-to-end application framework, Spring mirrors some of the Java EE capabilities , but it offers a combination of features and programming conventions you won’t find elsewhere.

What is embedded Tomcat? An embedded Tomcat server consists of a single Java web application along with a full Tomcat server distribution, packaged together and compressed into a single JAR, WAR or ...

Oracle will stop supporting Java 6 at the end of February 2013, and will soon be transitioning Java 6 users to Java 7 anyway. If you need Java for specific Web sites, a better solution is to adopt ...

A Java Web application is a self-contained collection of configuration files, static and dynamic resources, compiled classes and support libraries that are all treated as a cohesive unit by the ...

Lee Chuk-Munn shows how a management framework can be used to check on a Java application that is running.

This update also changes the way Java handles Web applications. According to Oracle’s advisory: “The default security level for Java applets and web start applications has been increased from ...