“The role of application servers has grown significantly in IT
architecture over the past few years as the cloud becomes the new
frontier for application development–a frontier that offers
more opportunity and challenges than the Web ever did.“That’s not to say that the Web space is over and done. We have
come a long way from simple CGI requests, and Java-based
application servers dominate the application server space on the
Web, handling everything from interfaces and data access to
availability and scale.”