As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

The main problem with a Tomcat vs. Jetty comparison stems from the fact that there are more similarities between the two Java application servers than there are differences. For example: Tomcat and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Most enterprise architectures use a single, reverse proxy server to handle all incoming requests ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...