Comments on: What is a Web Application Server? http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/general/what-is-a-web-application-server/ Make the Web Work for Your Business Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:26:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keendra http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/general/what-is-a-web-application-server//comment-page-1#comment-232 Keendra Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:10:13 +0000 http://www.resultantsys.com/?p=9#comment-232 <a href="#comment-231" rel="nofollow">@Clarke Bishop</a> Ah.. Thank you so much for your reply, now it's all so clear to me. You have no idea how helpfull this was (have been chasing answers all day). @Clarke Bishop Ah.. Thank you so much for your reply, now it’s all so clear to me. You have no idea how helpfull this was (have been chasing answers all day).

]]> By: Clarke Bishop http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/general/what-is-a-web-application-server//comment-page-1#comment-231 Clarke Bishop Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:30:29 +0000 http://www.resultantsys.com/?p=9#comment-231 The important thing to understand is that a pure web server <strong>ONLY </strong><em>grabs files and sends them along to the browser. If you want the server to do something more like retrieve information from a database or do some processing, you need an application server. Fortunately, application servers have become very common and most people just assume that any web server has an application server built in. PHP, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, .Net, J2EE -- These are all types of application servers. You mentioned plugins. Well, a plugin is just a piece of code that runs in an application server. Without the application server, there wouldn't be anything that could run the plugin's code. Javascript lets you script or program the browser, so it's really not part of the server. I hope this helps. The important thing to understand is that a pure web server ONLY grabs files and sends them along to the browser.

If you want the server to do something more like retrieve information from a database or do some processing, you need an application server. Fortunately, application servers have become very common and most people just assume that any web server has an application server built in. PHP, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, .Net, J2EE — These are all types of application servers.

You mentioned plugins. Well, a plugin is just a piece of code that runs in an application server. Without the application server, there wouldn’t be anything that could run the plugin’s code.

Javascript lets you script or program the browser, so it’s really not part of the server.

I hope this helps.

]]> By: Keendra http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/general/what-is-a-web-application-server//comment-page-1#comment-230 Keendra Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:03:47 +0000 http://www.resultantsys.com/?p=9#comment-230 Could you please explain to me what dynamic functionality is added with an application server that can't be made by using for example javascripts or plugins? Can you give an example on what exacly this is used for? Could you please explain to me what dynamic functionality is added with an application server that can’t be made by using for example javascripts or plugins? Can you give an example on what exacly this is used for?

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