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 ...

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 ...

Client-server applications companies are in the throes of developing Web browsers for their products, but analysts agree it will be a while before browsers replace the traditional client. Will the Web ...

An introduction to programming concepts and practices for creating applications which use the web as the delivery platform. Students will learn technologies including HTML, Javascript, AJAX, client ...

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source toolkit that allows you to create AJAX-based Web applications that are completely written in Java. This article summarizes experiences gained when ...

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 ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

In previous months, we have been taking a look at some of the original client/server Web tools. First we saw what was available in the public domain, and then, last month, we saw Sybase/Powersoft’s ...