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What is the difference between web server, web container and application server?
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As a UI developer and someone with very limited Java knowledge, how do I understand what exactly is servlet container in simple terms? I have heard Weblogic, JBoss, etc are servlet containers, but not ...
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I understand a Webservice application consists of the application server, Web server and database server. I have tomcat installed and using oracle as database.(all on the same machine). I am using jee ...
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What is the difference between application server and web server?
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Lately I started to learn Java EE and related technologies and there are some concepts which confuse me. Somewhere I read that whenever one is building a Java EE application then it is sort of ...
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In my theory spring boot is capable of running java web application stand-alone. It says it has a own embedded servlet container and can use JNDI itself. I built a war file before (spring-mvc, ...
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I am new to Java and using Java 7. I have installed NetBeans 7.1 and opened a web project with default settings. Following image shows the settings. Even though Tomcat is pre-installed it is not ...
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I am a little confused about the roles of a java application server and its differences from a web server. I found many sites explaining the same difference between the two but not to my satisfaction. ...
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I am trying to learn how to use Web Services. I have been reading this link, but I don't understand the difference between Implement and Not Implement Web Service as a Stateless Session Bean
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I recently started learning java and JSP. To run JSP I was informed that I need to download apache tomcat. I did that and configured it to eclipse and got results. What exactly is this apache tomcat ...
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using java 11 in my spring web mvc application and want to use "org.springframework.http.server.ServerHttpRequest" instead of "javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest" in my ...
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I try to make a java 15 maven project of a jaxws webservice using a embedded tomcat 10. My current project is on https://github.com/BeRoots/MeteoWS/tree/master/src/main/java I'm not sure it's a good ...
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According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/5039371/769384, which clearly states the difference between servlet containers and app servers, it seems that a web container such as Tomcat should not be ...
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To change the locale providers in java 9+ (I am using 21 right now) I can start java with: -Djava.locale.providers=COMPAT,SPI However I tried to set this property programmatically via: System....
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My question is about : I have a Java web application which generates a EAR file and currently runs on IBM Websphere 6.1 . In its pom.xml it has WebSphere version dependency , I want to remove ...
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