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Difference Application Server and Web Server

Could anyone Plz tell me what's the difference between Application Server and Web Server

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As rightly said by vzilka, Application server is used to run business logic. An Application server has a 'built-in' web server, in addition to that it supports other modules or features like e-business integration, independent management and security module, portlets etc.
Names speak for themselves - Web Server and Application Server.
The web server is IIS or appache etc..and the application server is something like cold fusion or jrun, that processes an application then kicks the results back to the web server, in then kicks the information back to the client/brower as html etc...so if a client browses to a .cfm page which would stand for cold fusion mark up, the cold fusion server will handle the .cfm page  process the info, then send it back to the web server and then back to the client as html. basic way of putting it is this.
the IIS handles the html, and the cold fusion server handles the applications. now to reiterate. if someone has  an asp/.net applicaton server, you will see .asp for the extension on the pages. also, we need to be aware of what the iss itself can process, i no when i first started, i was like what is java script and vbscript, and wonder'd if i could use it.  these kind of languages can be process'd through the client side browser,  Internet explorer and Netscape process the information therefore, if you have a browser that supports java script and vbscript, you can see the results.  i should have left this out , but i no it help'd me out when it was explain'd to me this way when i first started.
Application server is just hype for web server with a cool fricking plug-in module.  Is it true that the application server contains the web server or doesn't the web server contain the applictaion server?  Isn't tomcat a plug-in module for apache?  Arent' beans requiring a web server to be run?  There is no difference between the two, it's just a buzzword to make somebody else sound "cool".
LIke, the web server isn't a box either, it's just a piece of software not a machine.  Are we in the matrix or is it in us?  only neo knows....
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