Competitive pressure from open-source software is threatening to redraw the Java application server landscape, just as it has shaken up the operating systems realm. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

The boom in application servers in recent years raises the question of whether an entire new tier of computing infrastructure has been created. Application servers separate systems functions from ...

What is the best application server? The answer depends on what an enterprise is looking for. Compare Apache Tomcat to these four offerings to see which Java app server fits. Continue Reading ...

Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the heat. Analysts say it's difficult to measure the extent to which open-source ...

It is EJB-friendly, J2EE 1.4-ready and has a dual-node-on-del SpecJ rating of 159.36 BOPS. And the JVM under there can hit 45,001 OPS! It has auto annealing, self-healing and a JMX starter kit rolled ...

The two servers are important rivals, in a sense: Tomcat is the foundation for SpringSource’s server offerings, and SpringSource is of course conceived of as an alternative to the Java EE for which ...

BEA systems and Sun Microsystems advanced their Java application servers last week, while Oracle pushed its Java development environment for grid enablement. BEA offered customers a path to utility ...

Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest desktop and server versions of the Java Runtime ...

BEA Systems Inc. has released an upgrade to its JRockit Java virtual machine (JVM) for servers based on Intel Corp. processors, the company announced. BEA acquired JRockit early last year from ...