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 ...

As I described in an earlier post, Packt Publishing invited me to review the book Java EE 6 Cookbook for Securing, Tuning, and Extending Enterprise Applications. In this post, I provide a review of ...

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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 ...

IBM's WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty profile, v8.5, is now Java EE 7 certified, the company announced this week. The latest stable release of this lightweight profile of the app server for ...

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Oracle Corp. has pushed the target release date of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) to the first half of 2017. Updates of the target dates for the Java Specification Requests (JSRs) ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

Application modernization continues to be a top priority for organizations. According to 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, “A majority (51%) of organizations say that spending on ...

Java being fully open-sourced has been a long, long time coming. While Sun open-sourced some of Java as long ago as November 2006, actually using Java in an open-source way was… troublesome. Just ask ...