Application Servers
The many new products touting themselves as application servers define the fastest-growing segment of the middleware marketplace. What's interesting about this is that application servers are nothing new (and TP monitors should be considered application servers due to their many common features). Most application servers are employed as Web-enabled middleware, processing transactions from Web-enabled applications. What's more, they employ modern languages such as Java, instead of traditional procedural languages such as C and COBOL (common with TP monitors).
Simply put, application servers provide for application logic sharing and processing, and for connections to back-end resources (see Figure 6.13). These resources include ...
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