What is Difference Between Web Server And Application Server ?

Here get all the differences between Web server and Application Server.

Web Server	Application Server
Web server handles HTTP(protocol) request. Because it only stores web pages.	Application server can deal with any protocols. Because it stores applications.
A dedicated computer or program can be a web server.	It’s a type of software engine.
Web server only serve wed-based applications such as Jsp and Servlet.	Application Server serve Enterprise-based applications such as EJB’s and web-based applications.
Web server came into existence in 1989.	Application server came into existence in 1990.
Web server does’nt support multi-threading.	Application server supports multi-threading, collection-pooling elc.
Web server can handle limited request in one second.	Application server can handle much more request than web-server, because it has higher capacity.
Web server can only deploy .war files.	Application server can deploy .war as well as .ear files.
Resource Utilizations is low.	Resource Utilizations is high.
Examples :- Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server(IIS) etc.	Examples :- Jboss(Red-Hat), Web Logic Server, JRun etc

    

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