{"id":20519,"date":"2017-07-22T03:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=20519"},"modified":"2024-12-14T04:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:51:27","slug":"difference-between-application-server-and-web-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/difference-between-application-server-and-web-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Application Server and Web server? [ 2024 ]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Application Server and Web server<\/h2>\n<p>In this tutorial, we will learn the difference between an Application Server and a Web Server and learn about the examples of each in this post. Note that all application servers can be considered and function like web servers.<\/p>\n<h2>What is a Server?<\/h2>\n<p>A server is a software program or hardware device that can service multiple clients on a computer network. Server can handle requests from the client, processes it and responds with a response to the clients.<\/p>\n<h2>Web server<\/h2>\n<p>Web Server can only handle, process and respond to web requests from its clients on HTTP\/(s) protocols. We can only deploy web applications (.war files) that server web pages to its clients on the Web container.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache HTTP Server<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft IIS ( Internet Information Services)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Application Server<\/h2>\n<p>Application servers on the other hand can support other protocols or specifications like JSP\/Servlets, EJB(Enterprise Java Beans) etc. We can deploy enterprise applications( .ear files )\u00a0 on the EJB container.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JBoss \/ Wildfly<\/li>\n<li>Redhat EAP<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft IIS<\/li>\n<li>Weblogic<\/li>\n<li>WebSphere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Related<\/h3>\n<p>Apache HTTP server installed on Linux<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/install-apache-http-server-on-ubuntu-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/install-apache-http-server-on-ubuntu-linux\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>JBoss server installed on Linux<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/install-jboss-application-server-on-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/install-jboss-application-server-on-linux\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between an Application Server and Web server : In this tutorial, we will learn the difference between an Application Server and a Web Server and learn about the examples<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing-questions","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20519"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26432,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20519\/revisions\/26432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}