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Netbeans gives programmers and Web designers the ability to create Java and JSP servlets, which run customized code in a user's browser. Servlets are mainly used as widgets on websites that run ...

Looking back at how software was built and deployed even 15 years ago, it seems surprising that our applications actually worked. In those days, a software development lifecycle consisted of running ...

When I began to write server-side web applications, there were two mainstream choices: if you wanted the program to execute quickly, you chose C, and if you wanted to write the program quickly, you ...

I have to provide maintenance support on a Java servlet project that accesses an Oracle 9i database through JDBC/OCI8. Don't ask.<BR><BR>Anyway, it was working fine, and then the client's DBA updated ...

All the cool new programming languages, like Ruby, always have compilers/interpreters and tools for Linux, and the old UNIX standbys like Tcl/Tk are still around when you need them. Why, then, is Java ...