In a guest post here in January, Matt McAdams critiqued Salesforce.com's database-as-a-service offering, Database.com, which I had previously lauded. McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, ...

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

Having just finished working on a 10-page tutorial detailing the inner workings of the tabular data stream protocol in relation to database administration and related gateways for programmers, I think ...

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 ...

Positioning its middleware as a comprehensive SOA platform, Oracle on Monday will roll out an upgrade to its application server that adds a business rules engine, boosts support for Web services, and ...

BEA Systems’ release of WebLogic Server 6.0 for the Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, and HP-UX operating systems in December 2000 added a host of new capabilities to the Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) ...

Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious. XML-based business process languages ...

ActiveGrid Inc. recently announced the early-access release of the company's next-generation enterprise application platform. The ActiveGrid Application Builder and Grid Application Server are now ...