A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail. A ...

A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware ...

We’ll just focus on a typical Web-based interaction between a Web-based client and our application server. From Client to Web Server. When dealing with Web-based requests, before tunneling through to ...

Tomcat vs. Jetty. As a Java application server, Tomcat supports both the Servlet and JSP API along with other web-based APIs, such as WebSockets and Jasper Reports. Another Java application server ...