Many software developers do not pay enough attention to the shutdown (also referred to as undeploy) of the applications they write. In fact, the most popular shutdown mechanism is to execute Ctl+C or ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

While Apache continues to rule the web server roost, a host of lighter and zippier web and application servers may now be a better choice to host your high-performance web-based apps. They focus on ...

Vaadin, the leading provider of Java web application frameworks, today announced the general availability of Swing Modernization Toolkit, a solution that enables organizations to run their existing ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...