I've always been a big proponent of using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices for dedicated file and media storage and backup. They are a low-power, low-cost alternative to a dedicated PC server, ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

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 ...

Chances are good that the average reader thinks a Java application server basically provides an implementation of the servlet specification, probably an implementation of JavaServer Pages, and perhaps ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...