A: 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 ...

If you're like me, setting all this stuff up just gets you excited about the next big thing you can do with the server—setting up a new Web application and seeing it work correctly is addictive.

A developer license for iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 already ships Solaris, as does a developer license of iPlanet’s Web Server 4.1 Enterprise Edition, Dorsey said.

As part of an effort to improve the performance of Web applications, NGINX continues to blur the line between where a Web server, also known as an application delivery controller, ends and an ...

Patrick Dorsey, group manager of Sun’s Web and application server products, said the company expects the new strategy to boost its application server market share, as well as use of its Java ...

The OWASP site is a must-read for all Web application developers and I suspect I’ll be discussing some of its subprojects in future issues. In the meantime, you have some reading to do.