Application server
An application
server (or app server) is a component-based product that resides in the
middle-tier of a server centric architecture. It provides middleware services
for security, state maintenance, along with data access and persistence. These
articles provide a background on application server products and their use. The
emphasis in these articles is on using databases for the persistence service
layer of Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) compliant products.
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