Re: which is the cheapest web server in the market....?

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>Well!! Thanks Bhushan! And now, your reply gave rise to another doubt....since web servers can serve >static content only, why was Java WebServer was called a web server by Sun when it can also process >servlets?   lol ..bang on .. by the way Tomcat is *NOT* an application server .. it is simply a web container .. which means that it can support and maintain the lifecycles of dynamic (predominantly) web content generators such as Servlets, JSP's etc. An application server on the other hand, really , has nothing to do with the web. It simply provides a framework for component based distributed server side application development. It just so happens that most application servers are finally plugged onto web containers for user interaction. That probably explains the confusion. And a web server doesnt necessarily mean *static content* .. a web server is just what the name suggests .. A server entity that can supply web content .. static or dynamic is its own business.       ----- Original Message ----- From: Manikandan Subramaniam To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: Re: which is the cheapest web server in the market....? Well!! Thanks Bhushan! And now, your reply gave rise to another doubt....since web servers can serve static content only, why was Java WebServer was called a web server by Sun when it can also process servlets?   Thanks   S. Manikandan   ----- Original Message ----- From: Bhushan_Bhangale Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: which is the cheapest web server in the market....?   Good doubt dear!!! Web Server can serve only static content like html, doc, mpeg, etc It cannot process any dynamic codes like JSP, ASP, Servlets, etc. To process this files you need some kind of engine or you can call application which understands this files. One way is to install this engines in web server only like we do in IIS for ASP. Application server is a full fledge application provider which comes with Servlet Container, JSP Engine, EJB Container, JMS, JTS, etc, etc............ -----Original Message----- From: Manikandan Subramaniam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: which is the cheapest web server in the market....? Hi all I have a doubt....What is the difference between an application server and the web server? Thanks in advance. S. Manikandan Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com