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 ...

The main problem with a Tomcat vs. Jetty comparison stems from the fact that there are more similarities between the two Java application servers than there are differences. For example: Tomcat and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Most enterprise architectures use a single, reverse proxy server to handle all incoming requests ...

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 ...

Two years ago, Oracle's application server software business was in shambles. Even though the market for the software that runs e-business and other Web site transactions was exploding, the likes of ...

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

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 ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.