A Web server exclusively handles HTTP requests, whereas an application server serves business logic to application programs through any number of protocols. Let’s examine each in more detail.

Most of the components, software code structures, operating system connections, data services and interconnectivity channels that exist in an application could (and usually should) also exist in a ...

The key difference between Tomcat and WebSphere is that WebSphere is a proprietary, Jakarta EE based application server built and supported by IBM, while Tomcat is an open-source Java application ...

Purpose is the fundamental difference between Tomcat and the Apache web server. The purpose of the Apache HTTP Server is to simply serve static files such as text, HTML, images, audio and video files ...