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Difference between Web- & Application Server

Posted by Rohit Sharma on May 05, 2001 at 5:02 AM

An application server is a generalized
server for running more than one applications
like EJB, RMI, IIOP, JSP, Servlets, etc.

An web server is for the purpose of processing the
requests over the Http proptocols.

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