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Application and web server

Posted by ana on July 12, 2001 at 5:49 AM

> an application server provides for the following things
> 1.session management
> 2.load balancing
> 3.thread management
> 4.security
> 5.messaging
> depending on the configuration of the application server
> it can provide one or all of the above features.
> in case of a web server,it just serves the requests that it
> receives with the appropriate response,with the help of servlets
> or other such programs.

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