The two companies, which together hold significant sway over the market for Java application servers, are collaborating on a way to build common components within their products.

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Datblock is one of the most popular survival servers for Minecraft Java Edition. It features several game modes like normal survival, skyblock survival, and even the creative.

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat.

Two leading supporters of Java, Oracle and IBM, announced a partnership to collaborate on the OpenJDK open source implementation of Java.

A Java application server runs software services for Web applications. Learn more about Java app servers, including the Java EE standards and more.

Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source Java application servers, such as Tomcat and JBoss, have eaten into the revenue of commercial providers of Java application ...

IBM and BEA garnered about two-thirds of the revenue for Java application servers in 2002, according to market researcher Gartner Dataquest.

Chuck Phillips reports that the boom in application servers now raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created.