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 ...

Use this step-by-step tutorial with an example rock-paper-scissors game to understand how to create and take advantage of RESTful web services with Eclipse and Tomcat. Continue Reading ...

Jakarta Server Pages (formerly JavaServer Pages) is a Java standard technology that developers use to write dynamic, data-driven web pages for Java web applications. JSP is built on top of the Java ...

While Apache continues to rule the web server roost, a host of lighter and zippier web and application servers may now be a better choice to host your high-performance web-based apps. They focus on ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called the ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey now. SpringSource is essentially offering a self-service, pay-as-you-go, public cloud deployment platform on which to build, run and manage the entire ...

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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 vulnerabilities ...