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 ...

HTTP/2 was approved in February 2015 as the successor to the original web communication protocol. While it is in the last stages of finalization, the standard has already been implemented by early ...

Developers in search of a Java application server have no shortage of options to consider. But before any enterprise selects and ultimately adopts a Java application server for development and ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...