Oracle became stewards of the Java platform as a by-product of their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But looking back, it seems that the Java Platform has been more of a burden than a blessing.

Creating dynamic web pages is necessary if a web site wants to display the current state of data accurately, for example showing temperatures around the world. There are several ways to accomplish ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol that is used to set up, modify, and terminate a session between two endpoints. SIP can be used to set up a two-party call, a multi-party call, ...

You can't judge a book by its back cover. At least, that's true in the case of More Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book is divided into five sections. Part I consists of three chapters that ...

Servlet class loading: For each servlet defined in the deployment descriptor of the Web application, the servlet container locates and loads a class of the type of the servlet. This can happen when ...