First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

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In the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) architecture’s presentation tier, servlets and JSPs (JavaServer Pages) generally render data derived from the business logic tier as HTML for browser ...

There was a time, back in the mid-1990s, when a little language called Oak was being developed by Sun. I recall bumping into it as I surfed the Web one day. It looked interesting, but I wondered why ...

I wrote a pair of apps, one a server and one a client, and they were free-standing java programs. They work seamlessly, only now we want to run the client from behind a firewall, and it's not working.