Comparison of Application Servers

Proprietary request servers supply system services in a well define but proprietary manner. The application developers build up programs according to the requirement of the application server. Dependence on a particular vendor is the disadvantage of this approach opposite but analogous case is the Java EE platform discussed below. Java EE application servers provide system services in a well defined, open, industry standard. The application developers develop programs according to the Java EE specification and not according to the application server.

A Java EE application developed according to Java EE standard can be deployed in any Java EE application server building it vendor independent. This article compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.

Contents

• 1 Apache
• 2 BASIC Language
• 3 C++ Language
• 4 Common-Lisp Language
• 5 Haskell Language
• 6 Java
• 7 Java EE
• 8 JavaScript
• 9 .NET
o 9.1 Microsoft
o 9.2 Third-party
• 10 Objective-C
• 11 Python
• 12 Perl
• 13 PHP
• 14 Ruby
• 15 Smalltalk
• 16 Tcl
• 17 Concept Application Server
• 18 See also
• 19 External links

Apache

The Apache application server bundles integrate script languages (such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Tcl) into Apache web server.

BASIC Language

• The Run BASIC - An all-in-one BASIC scriptable Application server with automatic session and state management.

C++ Language

• Web Server SDK Embeddable Application Server with C and Lua support.
• Tuxedo Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
• G-WAN Global-WAN (G-WAN, 105 KB) C servlets (that you 'edit & play') are as fast as Microsoft IIS 7.0 static pages cached in the kernel.
• Tntnet is a web application server for C++. Tntnet comes with a template engine, which allows the programmer to embed C++-code into HTML pages. Since these templates are not compiled at runtime, but like classic C++-programs in a separate compile-cycle, the resulting programs are native and therefore very fast. Tntnet is multithreaded and supports object lifetime through scoped variables.
• cppserv C++ servlet container
• Wt-toolkit Ajax toolkit for C++
• Wexus C++ Library for Webdevelopment
• libapache2-mod-raii C++ application server module for apache2

Common-Lisp Language

• Core Server Common-Lisp Application Server for Linux

Haskell Language

• HAppS Application server which allows and takes advantage of functional programming.

JavaScript

• Firecat- Server-side JavaScript Web Application Server.
• Jobo.TV- Server-side JScript Standalone Web Application Server, with built-in search, index, database (SQLite), Video and Desktop broadcast for Windows XP and Vista (x32 and x64)
• BroadVision - Server side JavaScript AS. One of the early birds to the marketplace during the eCommerce boom time, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.

.NET

Microsoft

Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:

• Internet Information Services web server
• .NET Framework (Windows Communication Foundation, Web Services, .NET Remoting, MSMQ, ASP.NET, ADO.NET)
• Distributed Transactions/COM+
• Active Directory Application Mode, Active Directory Federation Services, Authorization Manager

Third-party

• Mono, developed by Novell, Inc., licensed under GPL.
• Base4 Application Server, an open source project
• Apache, an open source web server that can be used for .NET as well

Objective-C

• GNUstepWeb WebObjects 4.5 compatible, released under the LGPL.
• SOPE inspired by WebObjects extended with Zope concepts, used as Foundation for OpenGroupware.

Python

• Zope, by Zope, Inc.

Perl

• HTML::Mason
• Catalyst

PHP

• Zend Server

Ruby

• Cerise - According to the blurb, Cerise is a Ruby web/application server following the same general pattern as J2EE application servers
Smalltalk
• Seaside software - A continuations based web application server based on Smalltalk

Tcl

• AOLserver Released as NaviServer before being bought by AOL in 1995, this was a pioneering web application server - for the first time integrating a multithreaded HTTP server with built in scripting language and database pools with abstraction layer.

Concept Application Server

• RadGs Concept Application Server - not HTtp://HTML based