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Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

The units-conversion Web service, which I’ve named UC, consists of four functions for converting between centimeters and inches and between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. Although this ...

One of the most extended belief about web applications is that most of them are insecure. This opinion is supported by statistics published by SANS [1] which show that almost half the vulnerabilities ...

HTML is a living entity. It has been evolving since its creation and will continue to evolve as long as we continue to find new and innovative ways to use the Internet. HTML5 is the latest ...

A Web server from Sun that ran under Solaris and NT. It supported Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. Version 2.0 was the final release of the product, which was created to provide an ...

Biz Stone called it "one of the most special days in the history of Twitter." And as it turned out, it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet.

A mechanism for delivering full-blown Java applications from a Web server. The programs are initially downloaded using the browser but are run outside of the browser ...

Another piece of old, insecure web infrastructure is about to be killed off. Oracle says that it's discontinuing its Java browser plugin starting with the next big release of the programming language.