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.

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

The packaging mechanisms defined in Chapter 8 of the J2EE 1.3 specification provide a framework for pulling together all the pieces of a J2EE application. However, application server vendors are free ...

Kubernetes as the new application server, and more Developer advocates sing the praises of Kubernetes. What's in it for enterprises?

New business analysis in 9i Application Server Release 2 make it easy to link to Oracle's powerful database software. Yes, it works with Microsoft's SQL Server and DB2, too.