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 ...

In “Servlet 2.3: New Features Exposed,” I introduced the changes coming in the Servlet API 2.3 and gave a short tutorial on the new servlet filter model. In this follow-on article, I’ll dig deeper ...

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

Scalability and security to be enhanced in Tomcat 7; Apache also is set to take over the Subversion software configuration management project The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is ...

While Apache continues to rule the web server roost, a host of lighter and zippier web and application servers may now be a better choice to host your high-performance web-based apps. They focus on ...

The enterprise Java community has made great strides to simplify file uploads from a web browser to a server. What was once a task that involved many cross-platform complications is now ...