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APPLICATION SERVER vs WEB SERVER

Posted by K.C.Anand on August 13, 2001 at 6:12 AM

Hi All,

Application Server is responsible for handling the Business logic
of the system while Web server is responsible to cater to the HTTP requests.
In three tier Architecture
the flow is as follows

[Browser(Client)]---> [Web server(http requests)+ application server(Business logic)]--->database server

Now if there are heavy transactions on the system then the second Tier is bifurcated which results in the 4 Tier Architecture.
The flow is as follows
[Browser(Client)]---> [Web server]--->[application server(Business logic)]--->database server

regards
Krishan

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