Sun is to launch a Java application store, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has revealed. Currently code-named "Project Vector" but likely to be called the Java Store, it was described by Schwartz as ...

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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 ...

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