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 ...

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Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s ...

In a client-server environment, an organization's files, and sometimes its applications, are stored not on individual desktop computers but on centralized servers instead. That "client-server" ...

Java originally made its debut in browsers and client machines; at the time, many questioned whether it was suitable for server-side development. Now, with increasing third-party support for the Java ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...