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

What is a progressive web app (PWA)? How can brands develop and leverage them to improve the customer experience? We're growing increasingly accustomed to being connected at all times — in fact we ...

A cloud application is internet-based software that processes or stores data online. There are three main kinds of cloud applications: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond to ...