SAP plans to offer a Web application server that's J2EE-compliant, a move that it claims will help users tie software to e-business applications across different systems, divisions and enterprises.

One such web server is Jetty, which is garnering fans for its embedability. Businesses need to look beyond Apache for hosting Java-based websites for a couple of reasons.

JSF is a technology for building Java-based Web applications. An improved style editor, meanwhile, lets developers change text size, fonts, backgrounds, color, and positioning quickly, according ...

Portlets are Java-based Web components, managed by a portlet container, that process requests and generate dynamic content. Portals use portlets as pluggable user interface components that provide ...

This tool requires extensive Java programming experience. Competing development software from BEA Systems and Borland both do a much better job of helping developers create Java-based Web services.

An end-to-end solution, Java has helped join the disparate worlds of enterprise information systems, linking legacy, ERP, and relational databases with Web-based business applications.

Tomcat is used in at least 75 percent of Java- based Web sites, said Jim Jagielski, chairman of the Apache board of directors and a senior staff engineer and chief open source officer at VMware.