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What is an Application server?

CyberCowboy

Senior member
ok.. I spent 2-3 hours downloading the Sun One Application server, thinking that it was a web server.

CAn someone tell me what an Application server is?
And what is the diff between that and a web server?

any how, can anyone refer me to a free web server?
i need it for a project course I'm taking.




 
An application server can mean any machine dedicated to serving out applications. For instance, a server that handles translations from Italian to English...or maybe a server that processes WAP enabled applications...or your servlet engine resting on a standalone box could all, technically be labeled application servers. Even a machine that runs all your cgi scripts can be termed an application server. It's just a machine for your apps to run on so that they don't run on your workstation in a nutshell.


As far as web servers, apache is free for win32 and unix based systems (apache.org). Windows 2000 has IIS which has licensing issues, but I think would be free for your use. There's also xitami from imatix which is also very good.
 
Haha, apache is like 4mb. You wasted a bunch of time, didn't you 🙂

Sun One Application Server is for deploying java applications.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Haha, apache is like 4mb. You wasted a bunch of time, didn't you 🙂

Sun One Application Server is for deploying java applications.

i guess i did waste time. but i need a web server that will process my JSP pages and thought that sun one app server was a web server that did such a thing
 
Originally posted by: CyberCowboy
Originally posted by: notfred
Haha, apache is like 4mb. You wasted a bunch of time, didn't you 🙂

Sun One Application Server is for deploying java applications.

i guess i did waste time. but i need a web server that will process my JSP pages and thought that sun one app server was a web server that did such a thing

go to apahe.org and click on "Jakarta"
 
try a search for jetty web server. It has built in jsp/servlet engine so it may serve you better if you're just learning.
 
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