Version 5 of application server

Updated 2003-08-21 10:39:11

[What is an application server?]


ulis, 2002-07-11

An application server is a server which service is to launch applications?


What kind of applications ? How is an application server different than a shell, or a cron program, or any of the other ways that one can start an application?


ulis, 2003-08-23

As a shell or a cron an application server can deliver services around an application. But an application server has a manageable database of applications and can spend applications execution accross a network, sending back the result of the execution to the caller.

It seems easy to design an application server for Tcl scripts: - a database server to manage and deliver the scripts, - an execution server for each node to route the calls, launch a script and send back the result.