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 I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

Servlets were designed to allow for extension of a server providing any service. Currently, however, only HTTP and JSP page servlets are supported. In the future, a developer may be able to extend an ...

I'm running a development web site on a dual P3-866 with 512MB of RAM, and it's pretty darn slow when compiling JSPs. Since my dev box is a 3Ghz P4 with 1GB and SCSI, I figure I could get some ...

Currently using EditPlus + Ant to author some server-side Java goodness on top of Tomcat 4.1.10. Pleasantly surprised at the smooveness of the arrangement considering I'd never done any Java before, ...