List of application servers
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This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.
C++
Tuxedo – Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
Wt – A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
POCO C++ Libraries – A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
Java
Apache MINA – an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
Netty – a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js
JavaScript
Broadvision – Server-side JavaScript AS. One of the early entrants in the market during the eCommerce dot-com bubble, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.
Bun – implements Apple's JavaScriptCore engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. An open-source project with its own npm-compatible package manager, and many built APIs, tooling and utilities.
Node.js – implements Google's V8 engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. A vigorous open-source developer community on GitHub has implemented many supporting products, notably npm for package management and Connect and Express app server layers.
Deno – community developed Rust project, spearheaded by Ryan Dahl who also created Node.js, it directly targets TypeScript but also supports JavaScript and WebAssembly via V8; employs asynchronous, event-based I/O model via promise-based APIs and Tokio scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
Phusion Passenger
LPC
Dworkin's Game Driver (DGD)
Lua
OpenResty
Tarantool
.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, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), ASP.NET, ADO.NET)
Distributed Transactions, COM+
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Authorization Manager
Third-party
Mono – Developed by Xamarin, licensed under MIT
Objective-C
GNUstepWeb - WebObjects 4.5 compatible, licensed under LGPL
PHP
Appserver.io, an open-source PHP application server.
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