Web server vs Application server

Web server vs Application server

   June 26, 2021       Ravi Yasas

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Web vs application servers

Introduction

• The application server is the super one.
• Each application server contains an inbuilt web server.
• If you are not satisfied with the inbuilt server, you can add another web server to the application server.

 What is the difference?

Web server	Application server
Ex: Tomcat, Jetty, Resin	Ex: Glassfish, Wildfly, JBoss, WebSphere
Not J2EE compatible	J2EE compatible
Can run web applications only	Can run both web and enterprise applications
Support for HTML, JSP, Servlets...	Support for HTML, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JMS...etc as well.