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APP.Server & WS

Posted by Mohan on November 15, 2001 at 12:33 PM

Hi,
Are they same on the WEB?, or saperated from each other?.
can u tell me " how are they oriented in nature to provide web services?".
Thanks.
Mohan.

> A Web Server is the one which provides web service to its clients.
> An Application Server is the one which provides any type of service(As a Web Server, As a Transaction Server, and the Server Components-EJB) to its clients sitting in a middle-ware.