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 ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

Watch out Oracle, Pivotal is offering a lighter alternative to the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) stack. The company has collected many of its technologies into a single integrated package, called the ...

Fred Grott, a programmer who specializes in smart phone applications, has two models for his business: He can write specialized applications in native code that take advantage of all of the features ...