Whether Tomcat is an app server depends in part on how you're using it, but that's not all. Jeff Hanson explains the formal differences between app servers, Web servers, and Java EE containers ...

The Apache Software Foundation for open source projects is readying an upgrade to its Tomcat Java servlet container, with improvements eyed in areas such as scalability and security, Apache ...

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 ...

The container part of the web server is to host Java based web components that are based upon the Servlet and JSP specification. This is the important link between the client and the server in the ...

Java VMs, the original application 'containers,' are now facing stiff competition from a new generation of containers.

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of deploying the open-source GlassFish Java Application server on the latest release of Ubuntu Server.

Microsoft's Azure Service Fabric will be adding support for Linux, Java and containers, according to the latest roadmap.

Can Containers Fix Java's Legacy Security Vulnerabilities? I reported last week on Oracle's latest Critical Patch Update, which included 169 new security vulnerability fixes across the company's ...

Java Enterprise Edition Version 6 release includes new security features in the areas of web container security as well as authentication and authorization aspects of Java application development ...

Tomcat's primary focus is to provide an implementation of the Servlet and JSP specification. Tomcat also supports a few complementary APIs such as WebSockets, the Java Authentication Service Provider ...