For many Web-based client-server applications, the old HTTP request-response model has its limitations. Information has to be transmitted from the server to the client in between requests, rather than upon request only.

A tragic true tale of lies and deception, abandonment and hope of running the same Java application server and deployed application binaries on different JVMs.

Waterfall model follows application development in phases with checkpoint and deliverable documents in each checkpoint. It advocates rigours project management, strategy and processes to track the status. The main drawback is that it require more than 80% project understanding before kick off the project which is impossible in major cases. Cause of volatile requirements and understanding business feels, 80% of software projects using this methodology fail to meet their objectives.

Can the lack of standardization be part of the cause of so many vulnerabilities we see in tech? When two rules don't exactly fit together, the gray area created is where exploits will play. We talk about some of this idea in our new article.

Interview with Sivakumar Thyagarajan on JSR 332: Java EE Connectors in Java EE 7.