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 holds company or user data. Contrast with "application server," which stores programs that are executed. See application server and DBMS. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY ...

Chances are good that the average reader thinks a Java application server basically provides an implementation of the servlet specification, probably an implementation of JavaServer Pages, and perhaps ...

A high-speed computer in a network that stores the programs and data files shared by users. It acts like a remote disk drive. The difference between a file server and an application server is that ...

For a middle layer, when we needed active server code to retrieve data from the database or run computation, we settled on Node.js. Here too, our NAS had a pre-built package that worked perfectly.

Indeed, application servers have evolved, and the deployment target has sometimes involved a unique twist on the application server of old. Portal servers, where standardized enhancements to the basic ...

Four months after releasing the first version of its e-commerce software, Oracle is upgrading its 9i Application Server (9iAS) product for conducting transactions over the Web.