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 ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

When Java developers start talking about application servers, Tomcat is often thrown into the mix. After all, it’s one of the most popular options for lightweight development scenarios, and in many ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems has released software to make special-purpose servers that use Sun's Java to run programs. Sun introduced a developer kit for its Cobalt servers that makes it easier to ...