what is meant by application server?
what is the main difference between appilication server and
webserver?
what extra services offered by application server than web
server?

Answer Posted / vijay

A Web Server understands and supports only HTTP protocol
whereas an Application Server supports HTTP,TCP/IP and many
more protocols. Also many more features such as
Caches,Clusters,Load Balancing are there in Application
Servers which are not available in Web Servers. We can also
Configure Application Servers to work as Web Server. In
short, Applicaion Server is a super set of which Web Server
is a sub set

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