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BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun have made millions selling Java-based application server software--but now they're finding it harder to eke out a profit as their base products become commodities.

What does Sun Java System Application Server actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun have made millions selling Java-based application server software--but now they're finding it harder to eke out a profit as their base products become commodities.

What is embedded Tomcat? An embedded Tomcat server consists of a single Java web application along with a full Tomcat server distribution, packaged together and compressed into a single JAR, WAR or ...

In such a system, the application that sends requests is referred to as the client. The server, meanwhile, accepts requests, processes them, and sends back responses.