Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...

Currently, there are two commercial and two open-source C++ Web services servers. CRN Test Center engineers examined the Systinet Server for C++ and put it head-to-head with Apache Axis and gSOAP.

A web server is software and hardware that uses HTTP and other protocols to respond to client requests made over the World Wide Web. Its main job is to display website content, such as text, images, ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...

Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers. A Web server needs to support concurrency. The server should service clients in a timely, fair manner to ensure that no ...