When referring to an application server many times people are refereeing to a server that is running something like J2EE or EJBs or .NET with XML. They are actual applications running behind a web server. Some examples are BEA, WebSphere, or Jonas for Java apps. I have no idea about .net, not into that... If you are looking for a good Java one I suggest Jonas which is open source (free) and is fairly decent. I have used it for running applications with apache and tomcat running together... The Java apps with Jonas need to have something handle the web front-end which is Tomcat for apache....
Thanks, Ray Hunter -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Tredrea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Servers, servers and more servers I'm trying to put together an architecture for a web environment and have a newbie question regarding PHP and application servers... I have decided to use Apache and MySQL running on Linux, using PHP for server side scripting. Were does an application server fit into this and is it necessary? I know that if I had chosen to use ColdFusion for my scripting environment that this is an application server but I don't know where one fits in with PHP, Apache and Linux. Thnx, Stephen
