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What exactly is an application server? From what I understand, all it does is run java programs. How is it different from CGI? CGI executes programs and scripts, right? Is it just that java is cross-platform? Can somebody clarify?
 
An application server is a server computer in a computer network dedicated to running certain software applications. The term also refers to the software installed on such a computer to facilitate the serving (running)of other applications.

A web server is an application server.

this link will give you more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_server
 
An application server is a server that runs applications, as opposed to running them on a workstation.

Windows Server 2003 for instance can run the applications, and you can remote desktop to the server. This is OK if you have older workstations and/or an app that would otherwise have to hit the server for database information often, and the network is slow (aka WAN)
 
Thanks, but I was referring more to the application server in reference to the back end of a web-system. It's not just a web server, is it? I've always heard that systems are a 3 tiered structure, where the webserver is the front, the database is the back, and the app server is in between. Anybody know?
 
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