[[What is an application server?]]
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ulis, 2002-07-11

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

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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.

I seen such a server (for binary applications) in the 80's.