Every week I write about various aspects of Web applications but I have never actually discussed what a Web application is. The place to start is what differentiates a Web application from a regular ...

Legacy web applications are synchronous in nature. The user interacts with the web interface presented in the browser, the browser makes requests back to the server based on that user interaction, and ...

Did you know you can run remote Linux GUI programs in a browser with HTML5 support? It’s even secure because you can use SSH tunneling and that little trick means you don’t even need to open ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Software builds applications. Some of those applications ...

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 ...

In previous months, we have been taking a look at some of the original client/server Web tools. First we saw what was available in the public domain, and then, last month, we saw Sybase/Powersoft’s ...

What's the difference between Tomcat and Apache? It's a question developers hear frequently. But, when worded that way, it contains some misleading assumptions. Normally, when people ask this question ...

With so many security efforts concentrated on networks themselves, it seems as though Web applications have been all but forgotten. Perhaps it’s because applications used to be stand-alone programs ...

Developers will be able to use the Serverless MCP Server by prompting their AI-driven coding agents to design, deploy, and troubleshoot serverless applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released ...