If you cannot satisfy the performance with one server node when concurrent users are increasing dramatically, or you cannot scale your Java applications with one JVM instance due to the limitation of ...

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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 ...

I'm not sure what I expected when I finally connected with Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Anne Thomas last week to discuss a research note she co-authored that took heavy fire from ...

It's been a long wait, but it's finally here: Oracle Corp. announced today the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software ...

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 ...

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 ...