From: Todd Gillespie Date: 2001-12-09T04:37:28+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:27967] Re: App server for Ruby? Mikkel Bruun wrote: : An application server is a serverbased framework for hosting some sort of : applications.... Thank god for the reflexive axiom. : The framework takes care of all the native/os dependent/infra structure/ : stuff letting the application focus on what really is the problem to be : solved.... Again, this definition is too vague to be of any use. An operating system qualifies, as a framework that takes care of all the hardware dependent stuff, letting the application focus on etc,etc,etc... : So...could this be modruby??? yeah...modruby could be a simple web based : ruby server...However, the terms usually means a more complex soultion.... : * Preinstalled DBI : * Preinstalled XML : * Some sort of common interface (servlet) : and other infrastructure api such as messaging, transaction handling etc... Again, we return to 'term usually means' and 'api such as'. I am looking for a formal and complete definition, if there even is one. : App servers has acutally been around for quite along time...they have not : allways been web saavy.... If 'app server' means 'an operating environment with service APIs', then yes, they have around long indeed.