What is the difference among Application Server and Web Server and Container.

Hi Sarje,

An application server is technology where developers can create, test, and execute application components. Application servers are typically J2EE-based, running EJBs or other Java components

Web servers are technology designed to create and deploy Web site, serving up content more so than applications. They both use Web interfaces, but Web servers are more about the interface than the back-end logic

A Webcontainer serve as a runtime environment for a web application.

The web application runs withina web container of a web server.

Thanks,
Riju.

application server is a father of web server .

web server is provide container service to run web application
that contains only jsp & servlets

Application server proivide more service to deplyed
application like security , life cycle manage , pool management

Both are using for trnsfer request , Container residing in
application server side.

web container is a part of web server. which for containing
the servlets & jsps.

Difference between webserver & application server in the
sence, Web server only provide supports for jsps &
servlets. but won't support for EJB. But the Application
server supports all these things, like Jsps, Servlets ane
EJB.

Ex for Web server is TomCat,JRuner
Ex for Application server is WebLogic,JBoss

Diffrence between application server and web server is

application server:
>it contains only application container
>it recognizes only .ear files
>it provides less middle ware services
>it does not follows clustering model

web server:
>it contains both application container and web container
>it recognizes .ear and .war file also
>it provides more middle ware services
>it follows clustering model

container:

container is a runtime environment for our application.
which takes care about invoking life cycle methods , maintaining threads
, provides middle ware services and etc.

all out applications runs under the container.