Web Logic?
Ans: BEA Systems' Web Logic is a server software application that runs on a middle tier, between back- end databases and related applications and browser-based thin clients.
Web Logic is a leading e-commerce online transaction processing (OLTP) platform, developed to connect users in a distributed computing environment and to facilitate the integration of mainframe applications with distributed corporate data and applications.
What is Application server and Web server?
Application Server: An application server exposes a business logic to the client applications through various protocals including HTTP.
Web Server: Web server mainly deals with sending HTML for dispaly in web browser.
a web serever exclusively handles HTTP requests.
 | Application Server | Web Server |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | An application server is a software framework that provides an environment in which applications can run, no matter what the applications are or what they do. | Web server can refer to either the hardware (the computer) or the software (the computer application) that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet. |
| What is it? | A server that exposes business logic to client applications through various protocols including HTTP. | A server that handles HTTP protocol. |
| Job | Application server is used to serve web based applications and enterprise based applications(i.e sevlets, jsps and ejbs...). because application server contains web server internally. | Web server is used to serve web based applications.(i.e servlets and jsps) |
| Functions | To deliver various applications to another device, it allows everyone in the network to run software off of the same machine. | Keeping HTML, PHP, ASP etc files available for the web browsers to view when a user accesses the site on the web, handles HTTP requests from clients. |
| Examples of popular server products | Sun Java Application server, weblogic server, Apache Geronimo, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Glass Fish Server | Apache, Microsoft IIS, Tomcat, Jetty |
| Clients can include | GUI’s, Web Servers | Web browsers, search enginerobots |
| Adds Functionality? | Yes | No, does not add any functionality. |
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