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 ...

This guide is designed to explain what a Web App or Web Application is and what they are used for. A web application, often referred to as a web app, is an application that is accessed via a web ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...

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 ...

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 ...