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Difference between 1) server and web server 2) WWW and internet

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Sr. No.	Key	Web Server	Application Server
1	Purpose	Web Server contains Web container only.	Application Server contains Web Container plus EJB Container.
2	Useful	A web server is good in case of static contents like static html pages.	Applcation server is relevant in case of dynamic contents like bank websites.
3	Resource Consumption	Web server consumes less resources like CPU, Memory etc. as compared to application server.	Application server utilizes more resources.
4	Target Environment	Web Server provides the runtime environment for web applications.	Application server provides the runtime environment for enterprise applications.
5	Multithreading support	Multithreading is not supported.	Multithreading is supported.
6	Protocol(s) supported	Web Server supports HTTP Protocol.	Application Server suppots HTTP as well as RPC/RMI protocols.
7	Example	Apache Web Server.	Weblogic, JBoss.

<th>S.No.</th> <th>INTERNET</th> <th>WWW</th>

1	Internet is a global network of networks.	WWW stands for World wide Web.
2	Internet is a means of connecting a computer to any other computer anywhere in the world.	World Wide Web which is a collection of information which is accessed via the Internet.
3	Internet is infrastructure.	WWW is service on top of that infrastructure.
4	Internet can be viewed as a big book-store.	Web can be viewed as collection of books on that store.
5	At some advanced level, to understand we can think of the Internet as hardware.	At some advanced level, to understand we can think of the WWW as software.
6	Internet is primarily hardware-based.	WWW is more software-oriented as compared to the Internet.
7	It is originated sometimes in late 1960s.	English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
8	Internet is superset of WWW.	WWW is a subset of the Internet.
9	The first version of the Internet was known as ARPANET.	In the beginning WWW was known as NSFNET.
10	Internet uses IP address.	WWW uses HTTP.