Application server
software framework that provides both facilities to create web applications and a server environment to run them
An application server is a server that hosts applications or software that delivers a business application through a communication protocol. For a typical web application, the application server sits behind the web servers.
An application server framework is a service layer model. It includes software components available to a software developer through an application programming interface. An application server may have features such as clustering, fail-over, and load-balancing. The goal is for developers to focus on the business logic.
Java application servers
Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE or J2EE) defines the core set of API and features of Java application servers.
The Jakarta EE infrastructure is partitioned into logical containers.
EJB container: Enterprise Beans are used to manage transactions. According to the Java BluePrints, the business logic of an application resides in Enterprise Beans—a modular server component providing many features, including declarative transaction management, and improving application scalability.
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