What is the difference between application server and web server?

Answer by  Aultero (80)

The Web server is the particular case of the application server. Application server could hold any type of applications, while web-server holds software for processing http or ftp requests, storing and sending web pages content and so on.

Answer by  ahsanmahmoodawan (1169)

talking a big step back a web server serve pages for viewing in a web browser while and application server provides the method that client applications can call a little precisely you can say that a web server exclusively handles HTTP and application server serve business tasks :)

Answer by  tamarawilhite (17883)

A web server hosts web pages. It can also control access between an intranet and Internet. An application server holds the data and software to run a computer application. An application server is used in large businesses to run Oracle databases, engineering software and other applications so that the software doesn't have to be installed on all users' computers.