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.

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 ...

Even as a mid-level API ensconced in modern UI component-based Web frameworks and Web services technologies, the incoming Servlet 3.0 specification (JSR 315) will have groundbreaking impact on Java ...

for example, when a container wants to reclaim memory resources, or when it is being shut down), it calls the destroy method of the Servlet interface. In this method, you release any resources the ...

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 ...