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Re: What Application Server are you using?

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Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish, etc. are all applications to the Unix 
environment.  (Or whatever environment/OS you run.)

But in the parlance of web programming, your application is the thing 
that a client sees in their web browser.  Both JBoss and Tomcat at least 
(and probably all other containers) are capable of running more than one 
application as a separate virtual host.  Exactly like Apache is capable 
of running separate websites as virtual hosts.

It's really a quibble over semantics.  You could call a Java Enterprise 
Edition container a framework, but the entry point for the OS is the 
container itself, and the app runs as a series of callbacks. 
"Container" is just JEE parlance for the thing that does that work for 
you (processes incoming request, sends a response, connects to a DB, 
etc.) which conforms to their JEE specification of what a container does.

In the same way we call a database a database even though it's really an 
application too, we have different names for different specific types of 
applications: demon, shell, name server, etc.  Container is just one of 
those names.



On 3/13/2014 9:24 AM, Robert Hutchings wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> When we talk about "application servers" or "containers", what
> exactly does this mean?  These are, in themselves, applications,
> correct?  They are an application that enables other applications.
> So, for example, Tomcat runs as an application or UNIX process(es)
> and a Java servlet executes in the context of the Tomcat
> instance...is that correct?
>
> I'm coming from a "mid-range background," Tandem NonStop and Windows
> .NET via VB or C#.
>

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What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 10:26 -0700
  Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-03-10 18:35 +0100
    Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-10 10:53 -0700
  Re: What Application Server are you using? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-03-10 18:16 -0400
    Re: What Application Server are you using? "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 21:24 +1100
      Re: What Application Server are you using? Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2014-03-11 12:12 +0100
  Re: What Application Server are you using? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-03-11 14:00 +0000
    Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-11 08:54 -0700
      Re: What Application Server are you using? lipska the kat <lipskathekat@example.com> - 2014-03-11 17:00 +0000
      Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-03-11 23:31 +0100
        Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 09:24 -0700
          Re: What Application Server are you using? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-03-13 12:45 -0400
            Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 10:48 -0700
          Re: What Application Server are you using? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-03-13 10:24 -0700
            Re: What Application Server are you using? Robert Hutchings <rm.hutchings@gmail.com> - 2014-03-13 10:47 -0700
          Re: What Application Server are you using? Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2014-03-16 13:42 -0300

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