Application Server Red Hat Developer Network Application Server Zone Welcome to the Application Server section of the Red Hat Developer Network. Here you will find the tools and information needed to successfully create and deploy applications using application servers running on Red Hat Linux. Essentially, application servers offer an integrated Web development platform that allow connection and management of a variety of enterprise resources such as Web servers, databases, and legacy application systems. Characteristic of an application server is a three-tiered architecture with an application's development and deployment layer between the client and backend of legacy systems. The application server provides a developer with a set of common tools and services that most applications need, allowing a new level of integration among components.
Some application servers provide an integrated development environment.
This can eliminate the need for multiple tools or code conversion, but it may not allow you to use other tools that you've used previously. This means you won't have to reinvent the wheel over and over again. With features such as load balancing and pooling and caching, application servers can give you more control over how applications run. Application servers can allow database-intensive business logic to perform better, lowering network traffic and improving access performance. Inc. All rights reserved.