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Posted by bhuju on August 23, 2001 at 10:56 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.