A Web Server understands and supports only HTTP protocol whereas an Application Server supports HTTP,TCP/IP and many more protocols. Also many more features such as Caches,Clusters,Load Balancing are there in Application Servers which are not available in Web Servers. We can also Configure Application Servers to work as Web Server. In short, Applicaion Server is a super set of which Web Server is a sub set.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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txs....good info.
But, I have a doubt.
U said dat App servers are supersets of Web Servers.
but, I read somewhere that Tomcat is not used as webserver. bcoz it is not superior that apache. y like this?
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