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Sun Microsystems was expected to announce on April 19 an update of its Secure Web Server Reference Architecture during its iForce Partner Summit in San Diego. Basically a set of how-to plans for ...

REST is one of the most influential ideas in distributed architecture. Here's why it matters and how to understand RESTful services in theory and practice. REST, or Representational State Transfer, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot servers may be the company's biggest and most ambitious rethinking of server architecture in the past decade. While traditional server innovation has focused on speeds and ...

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Jigsaw is the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) leading-edge web server platform. It is a full functioning, object-oriented web server written in Java that provides a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation, ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet ...