FOCAL POINT:The decision to select .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is easy - both should be supported unless the IT organization (ITO) can standardize on Microsoft (MSFT). Because only the ...

With the advent of .Net, Microsoft introduced an enterprise computing platform able to compete toe-to-toe with Sun Microsystems’ J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition). Microsoft’s move leaves ...

The SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) provides support for manipulating low-level SOAP messages. The Web Services for J2EE specification fully defines the deployment of Web Service clients and ...

Addison-Wesley and Developmentor have provided TheServerSide.com with the entire book of Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier for free download. Servlets and JSP the J2EE Web Tier is a book authored by ...

Today, developers are inundated with open source frameworks that help with J2EE programming: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Tiles, Avalon, WebWorks, Tapestry, or Oracle ADF, to name a few. Many developers ...

Thirteen years ago, 13 Sun Microsystems employees took on the daunting task of figuring out the "next wave of computing." The question had certainly been asked before--but rarely has it been answered ...

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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 ...

J2EE is as much a design philosophy as it is an actual development platform. Having worked with J2SE, you've got the essential building blocks (assuming you were any ...