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 ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

A development system used to create applications for a client/server environment. A comprehensive system generally includes a GUI builder for creating the user interface, a fourth-generation language ...

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 ...

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 ...