Madhava

• Oct 2nd, 2005

 

 

Difference b/w AppServer and a WebServer?

 

1. Web server serves pages for viewing in web browser, application server provides expose business logic for client application through various protocols
2. Web Server exclusive handles the http requests. Application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols
3. Web Server delegation model is fairly simple, when the request comes into the web server, it simply passes the request to the program best able to handle it(Server side program). It may not support transactions and database connection pooling
4. Application server is more capable of dynamic behavior than web server. We can also configure application server to work as a web server. Simply application server is a superset of web server.

Srinivas Choudary

• Oct 20th, 2006

 

Web Server contains only web container which can handle only http requests and Application server contains both web container and EJB Container.