What is the difference between application servers and Web servers?

[maria]

Web servers are normally designed to deliver Web site content and not much besides. Application servers may include a Web server component, such as a Java servlet container, but manage it alongside other components, such as an Enterprise JavaBeans container, so that there is a shared execution context amongst them.

Examples of standard web servers include


Apache httpd,
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
Lighttpd


Web servers primarily serve content using the HTTP protocol.

Examples of Java Application servers include


WebSphere Application Server from IBM
Oracle WebLogic Server and OC4J
JBoss
Apache Geronimo
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server
SAP Netweaver

[stevephillips79]

Hello,


Application servers may be include a Web server component, may as a Java servlet container, but manage it alongside other components, may as an Enterprise JavaBeans container and
Web servers are normally designed to deliver Web site content.


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[jhonybush]

A Web server handles the HTTP protocol. When the Web server receives an HTTP request, it responds with an HTTP response, such as sending back an HTML page. Whatever their purpose, such server-side programs generate a response, most often in HTML, for viewing in a Web browser.

As for the application server, according to our definition, an application server exposes business logic to client applications through various protocols, possibly including HTTP. HTML for display in a Web browser, an application server provides access to business logic for use by client application programs.The application program can use this logic just as it would call a method on an object.

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