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 ...

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.

Purpose is the fundamental difference between Tomcat and the Apache web server. The purpose of the Apache HTTP Server is to simply serve static files such as text, HTML, images, audio and video files ...