In the era before web apps, the web was a relatively simple system of hyperlinked documents written in HTML. Click a link on a page and your browser would load a new page based on the referenced URL ...

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 ...

With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant change for the everyday virtualization administrator by replacing the traditional desktop client (aka C# Client, VI Client) with a new ...

VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware’s flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

The vSphere Web Client has gone through some changes that may seem confusing, so here's a quick rundown of where to find the good stuff. With the release of vSphere 5.1, VMware has made a significant ...