A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A Web ...

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 ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running “Web Served” series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

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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 ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...