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Now, given Apaches module APIs, is it a web server or an application server?

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Now, given Apaches module APIs, is it a web server or an application server?

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Re: Web servers do offer caches, clustering and load b… Author: Balaji Sundararajan (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=439659), Jun 15, 2001 Even if we take it literally, a web server serves web pages so an application server should serve with application (logic). The application logic (here, the business logic) is embedded in some form, let that be an EJB or CORBA component, and the application server allows us to get the services provided by those components. IMHO, the qualities such as load balancing, fail-over support, caching are all non-funtional requirements that are applicabale to any distributed application (web server, db server, app server etc.