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 ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Thin Server Architecture, SOFEA, and other related approaches to applications are primarily about separating client and server concerns and ultimately placing the "View" code in the client.

The underlying architecture is typical of cloud-scale services, with the platform behind a set of load balancers and with App Service code running on a set of workers, delivered through a web server.