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application server

[‚ap·lə′kā·shən ‚ser·vər]
(computer science)
A computer that executes commands requested by a Web server to fetch data from databases. Also known as app server.
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application server

(software)
A designer's or developer's suite of software that helps programmers isolate the business logic in their programs from the platform-related code. Application servers can handle all of the application logic and connectivity found in client-server applications. Many application servers also offer features such as transaction management, clustering and failover, and load balancing; nearly all offer ODBC support.

Application servers range from small footprint, web-based processors for intelligent appliances or remote embedded devices, to complete environments for assembling, deploying, and maintaining scalable multi-tier applications across an enterprise.

application server

(software)
Production programs run on a mid-sized computer that handle all application operations between browser-based computers and an organisation's back-end business applications or databases. The application server works as a translator, allowing, for example, a customer with a browser to search an online retailer's database for pricing information.

application server

(hardware)
The device on which application server software runs. Application Service Providers offer commercial access to such devices.

Citrix Application Serving White Paper.

Application Server Sites, a list maintained by Vayda & Herzum.

The Application Server Zone at DevX,.

TechMetrix Research's Application Server Directory,.
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Inprise Corp has launched version 4.5 of its Borland AppServer application server product.
Nance said Unify can demonstrate how to link multiple Oracle, Informix and SQL Server databases into a Web commerce page in under ten minutes using WebNow, which will be bundled free with Vision AppServer for Linux.
The Studio consists of the Borland JBuilder Java development environment and the Borland AppServer J2EE application server as well as of application development lifecycle products from Rational Software and Macromedia, such as the Rational Rose Modeler 2001 visual modelling system and the Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for professional web application development.
Using existing GUI client code, the WebClient can run an application that provides scalable, high-performance architecture, while retaining its functionality Version 9.1B of the Progress AppServer user HTTP tunneling to communicate with the Progress WebClient and other 4GL clients through firewalls that often limit communications to HTTP.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 December 2000-Inprise introduces latest version of Borland AppServer (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
Version 9.1B of the Progress AppServer uses HTTP tunneling to communicate with the Progress WebClient and other 4GL clients through firewalls that often limit communications to HTTP.
The Linux compliant product line, which includes the company's Open AppServer and RDBMS relational applications database, is now under development, the company said, and products should ship in the fall.
Now Unify Vision AppServer and AppBuilder, DataServer ELS and Accell IDS are to be rolled out.
Unify Corp says that WITH Systems, a leading Japanese VAR, has selected Unify's VISION AppServer and AppBuilder products to develop an enterprise Internet application for the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
In total, the San Jose, California-based application development tools company plans to release seven products from the Vision AppServer, Accell and DataServer lines, all based around Red Hat Software Inc's version 5.2 of the nascent operating system.