Application Servers for E-Business presents a comprehensive overview of the technologies related to application servers in their facilitation of E-business. These technologies includes CORBA, Java, Enterprise Java Beans, Java 2, web servers, and legacy systems. It explores the role these servers play in the modern enterprise IT infrastructure and the environment in which they operate. The material also includes implementation considerations for application servers, including security, scalability, load balancing, and fault tolerance.

This book was written to provide a useful and comprehensive overview of the technologies related to application servers. The modern application server is a complex platform that is the linchpin of an enterprise environment that includes a very wide range of technologies — Web document formatting, Web protocols, server-side scripts, servlets, applets, programming languages, distributed object technologies, security capabilities, directory and naming services, load balancing, system management, and others. As such, it can be a daunting task to try to learn and comprehend these systems, because they touch on so many different technologies.

Therefore, this book was written explicitly for an audience that has a need to understand application servers, the role they play in the modern enterprise IT infrastructure, and the environment in which they operate. It is intended to be a single, authoritative reference source and tutorial for all issues pertaining to application servers. It provides a technical explanation and description of the technologies utilized in modern application servers to facilitate electronic business (e-business), including CORBA, Java, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java 2, Web servers, and legacy systems. It also includes implementation considerations for application servers, including security, scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, and management.