sushilsb

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• Jun 1st, 2006

 

Web servers serves the HTTP request and reutrns the HTTP response whereas application server exposes the business methods. These business methods are invoked thru different protocols e.g. Http, TCP/IP etc.

Application servers are typically J2EE-based, running EJBs or other Java components. Application servers are designed to create true applications with complex business logic, and have scalability features such as load balancing, fail-over, and process distribution. In other words, it's primarily a development environment.

Webserver hosts the images, html or any content related to the presentation.

 Nowdays, most of the servers e.g. weblogic, websphere etc. serves both the purposes.

yathirajulu

• Sep 30th, 2007

 

The difference is Application server provides some features:Multi-threading, persistence, security & Transperant, which supports various protocols.
Where as, Web-server doesn't supports that features. Applications server includes in Web-server.
Application Server supports Load-balancing, clustering & connection pooling (most immportant feature).
Where as, Web-server doesn't support.