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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

As a meta-framework, Astro.js takes a different approach to developing web applications. Start here with a few critical design decisions. Astro.js is among the most popular meta-frameworks for ...