Like other Java enterprise tools, Tomcat has migrated from the original Java EE specification to Jakarta EE. Tomcat 9 and earlier were based on Java EE; Tomcat 10 and later are based on Jakarta EE.

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.

I previously blogged about using RESTClient with the Sun JVM-provided HTTP Server. As I stated in that blog posting, I intend to use these tools to demonstrate HTTP and REST concepts at Rocky Mountain ...

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 ...

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 ...