Joseph Chung Chung

But an equally compelling story can be told about the virtues of building the server-side of a web application in Java as well. This article will outline the major design issues of creating a server-side Java solution, and though I promise not to make this an infomercial, a number of examples will be drawn from one particular implementation, a commercial product called Dynamo which I played a key role in creating. Why Server-Side Java? One of the amazing things about the web is that all of the excitement (and money) centers around the very thing that a web site was designed not to do, namely, act as the server side of a client/server application. From web-malls to search engines to postcard shops, the demand for real functionality on the server has been skyrocketing, yet the programming model for creating these client/server applications is appallingly impoverished. ... (more)