The Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard is gaining adoption within the J2EE community for the management of applications, as well as application servers and other infrastructure software. JMX ...

Every week I write about various aspects of Web applications but I have never actually discussed what a Web application is. The place to start is what differentiates a Web application from a regular ...

Developers in search of a Java application server have no shortage of options to consider. But before any enterprise selects and ultimately adopts a Java application server for development and ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

Overview:  Web development frameworks focusing on performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability will be preferred by developers in 2026.React wit ...

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Apple’s Swift language — the company’s heir to Objective-C for iOS and MacOS development — is beginning to present opportunities on the server side of the IT equation. Companies ranging from startup ...

Java has become increasingly popular as a server-side programming language for database-powered Web applications. Those applications’ business logic-handling methods must work with data from backend ...

JavaScript is changing. Actually, I'm not sure how much of that is true; the underlying language hasn't changed too much over the years. But, even if the language itself isn't changing, everything ...

I just finished a marathon session rewriting Hypertext Preprocessor code, otherwise known as PHP4 (see www.php4.org). In case you’re not up to date on your open-source projects, PHP is a wonderful ...