Whether Tomcat is an app server depends in part on how you're using it, but that's not all. Jeff Hanson explains the formal differences between app servers, Web servers, and Java EE containers ...

Java EE's Servlet and JSP API provide a fine foundation for handling a web-based request-response cycle. Adding UI frameworks like JSR-371 to the spec only causes problems.

Full-on Java EE will be the obvious place to go when your Java EE Web Profile app needs to grow-up, in a way that it wouldn’t be obvious for a Spring or PHP app. by Josh Fruhlinger Contributing ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has finally released TomEE, the Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) of its Tomcat Web server, as a Java EE 6 Web Profile certified stack.

The details of Java EE 6 have been getting hashed out for quite a few months in the JSR 316 expert group, which I am part of. The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the changes in Java ...

Opinion: Sun re-releases the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) specification with new capabilities in the form of profiles and extensibility.