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title: "What is Application Server?"  
description: "What is Application Server?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-17  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/908/what-is-application-server  
category: "cold fusion"  
tags: ["cold fusion"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Application Server?

A server that exposes business logic to client applications through various protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, IIOS/SSL. **Eg**: Sun Java Application server, weblogic server

It takes care of important issues like Transaction Management, Security, Database Connection Pooling, Clustering, Scalability,session management,load balancing,thread management and Messaging etc. A web server cannot provide these.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

A server that exposes business logic to client applications through various protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, IIOS/SSL. **Eg**: Sun Java Application server, weblogic server

It takes care of important issues like Transaction Management, Security, Database Connection Pooling, Clustering, Scalability,session management,load balancing,thread management and Messaging etc. A web server cannot provide these.


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