How an app server and web server differ from each other? What are the functions of both of them? Tell me the difference between application server and web server?
The dissimilarities between an application server and a web server are as follows:
| Application Server | Â Web Server |
| • It exposes business logic to client application using HTTP. | • It handles the HTTP Protocol. |
| • It serves web-based, and enterprise-based applications. | • Serves Web based applications. |
| • It allows everyone in the network to connect to software. | • It handles HTTP requests from the clients using HTML, PHP, ASP, etc. |
|  • It has high resource utilization and supports EJB. | • It has low resource utilization and supports Servlets and JSP. |
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