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 ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

In the technology world, a thin client doesn’t allude to a client who’s been sweating on the treadmill. Rather, it refers to a system where the computer — the client — is configured with only the ...

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