A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

Sun Microsystems is expected to announce Wednesday that it is bundling its application server software into its Solaris operating system, a move that could change the competitive landscape in a ...

Lutris CEO and President Yancy Lind said Thursday morning that Lutris, a former open-source consulting firm that had most recently been operating as a J2EE licensee and vendor of J2EE app servers, has ...

On Monday, BEA released the first beta of its much-anticipated "Cajun," the code name for WebLogic Workshop, an easy development environment also nicknamed "Visual Basic for Java." The timing couldn't ...

Oracle next month plans to provide details on an update to its application server software and development tools, tied to the company's emerging "grid" computing strategy. At its customer conference ...

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 ...

Sun ONE Application Server 7, Platform Edition, is available immediately, and both development and deployment on the app server is free, said Rick Schultz, group marketing manager for Sun ONE Java Web ...

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 ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...