Application Servers

An application server is a server that hosts applications such as image editors, web browsers, development and testing applications, etc. The demand for application servers increased when the complexity and additional functionality required by users became tedious to maintain.

Application servers can have different users based on their requirements. An application server can be used by a user for scalability or to improve managing all their web applications. An application server generally serve as a middleware platform or the second layer since it exists between the first layer or the client end, which can be a browser or a web server, and the third layer or the database server itself.

Active application server, Web information server and Component server are three types of application servers. Active application server supports business logic in the form of rules or objects, whereas a web information server focuses on processing web applications and a component server helps connect different software components.

Instant access to apps, Traffic optimization, License management and Data integrity are some of the benefits of using application servers.

Identifying and prioritization and identification of a use case are few best practices that should be followed in order to make an application server work.