What is the differnce between application server and web server

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Balachandar

  • Oct 27th, 2005
 

A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols.

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sma_raffy2000

  • Oct 27th, 2005
 

Web server cannot communicate with Component Architecture or Distributed Architecture.It consists of Servlets and JSP pages.Application server is EJB. It can communicate will both Web and Distributed Architecture. Application server is a Component Architecture.

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manzoor

  • Nov 3rd, 2005
 

An application server has much more capacity than a web server. Where a web server is only capable of serving web pages on  http requests- an application server exposes business logic to client application.

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santanu

  • Nov 11th, 2005
 

application server can handle any type of protocal,but other handles only http protocal

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mohan

  • Dec 16th, 2005
 

webserver work on non-disrtibuted technology like servlets and JSP,where as APPserver work on distibuted and non-distributed (like RMI,EJB.)

app server give the support for Middleware  services like Transaction,Connectionpooling,MemoryManagement

*Tomcat is an APP server

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Amit Kumar

  • Dec 22nd, 2005
 

Your ans. is not perfact because Genrecservlet is also used FTP protocal.

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rama krishna adipuram

  • Feb 1st, 2006
 

web server based on 3-tier where as application server n-tier

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mahesh maney

  • Sep 14th, 2006
 

I dont think, that a web server can only handle three tier architecture

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