A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail.

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

Kubernetes as the new application server, and more Developer advocates sing the praises of Kubernetes. What's in it for enterprises?

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Web Server Environment This shows the server-side processes that can take place in a Web server (HTTP server) and application server. Since both can perform similar tasks, there is some overlap.

Standard & Poor's needed to find the right application server software to perform the business logic for its customized Web sites--and its Web services business. Read why--through two rounds of ...

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side ...