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 ...

Java Web Start can make deploying Java apps a breeze, but it may prevent those apps from accessing needed resources. Find out how to use Java Network Launching Protocol and application signing to ...

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...

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However you slice it traditional caching requires performance trade-offs that some enterprise applications cannot afford. Find out for yourself why Memcached is a go-to solution for Java developers ...

A mechanism for delivering full-blown Java applications from a Web server. The programs are initially downloaded using the browser but are run outside of the browser ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Client-side JavaScript frameworks are all the rage, but they aren’t always the right answer if ...

A recent Java 7 update allows users to completely prevent Java applications from running inside browsers or to restrict how Web-based Java content is handled by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) ...

Just when you think you've seen every possible approach for marrying legacy applications to thin clients, another vendor comes along with yet another way to skin that cat. Tarantella Enterprise 3 (TE3 ...

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 ...

When the Amazon S3 outage happened on the east-coast last year, it took a large number of Java cloud apps with it. Others, like Nike’s website, just slowed down. But a few, like Netflix, saw no impact ...