Introduction
Modern web applications are rarely built with a single technology. A typical application combines a web server, a programming language, a framework, a database, data formats, and backend services to deliver its functionality.
For anyone learning web application security, it’s important to understand these technologies at a basic level—not only to recognize them, but to understand where they sit in the architecture, how data moves through the system, and where weaknesses can be introduced.
This article covers:
Java Platform
