Importance of Application server in Web technology

Today let us discuss about two powerful terms in web technology  . I think most of them are familiar with these two terms .The first one is Application server and  the other one is Web server . Application server is a term that sometime mixed with web server . Isn’t ?

What is a Web Server ? Simply we can say a web server which handles mainly HTTP protocols and serving web files . I have already discussed the web server concepts and it’s related topics in my previous posts .

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Now Let’s discuss the Application server in detail . Application server which deals with hosting files and handles different protocols including HTTP . Simply It is a software upon which different web application run . Normally an application server consist of different web applications , databases and required run time libraries .

Java EE – Java Application server

Now let’s look some advanced concepts of the Application server . Have you ever heard about Java EE ? What is Java EE ? It is Java Platform enterprise edition which is a set of specification for enterprises with providing web services and distributed services .  Mainly Java EE using in different fields such as banking ,e-commerce etc.  One of the main uses of Java EE service is providing Java application servers .

Application server and integration Environments

With this post , I would like to share what is an Application server and what are the free and paid application servers .There are lot of open source ( free ) and paid Application servers available today . I am listing out some of them below

Major Open source Application servers used in Market

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
• Wildfly
• Apache Tomcat
• GlassFish
• Jetty

Some of the of paid commercial Application servers are

• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Oracle Containers for J2EE
• ColdFusion
• WebLogic Server

In up coming post , i would like to write how to set up and installation of some of the open source application servers .

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