An application server is a program that handles all Web application operations between Web browsers and back-end business or database servers. Because many databases cannot interpret commands written in HTML, the application server works as a translator by retrieving data from databases and using business logic encapsulated in code to output dynamically generated HTML code. The Chili!Soft ASP Server is an application server that enables you to use the Active Server Pages (ASP) specification to execute database queries, execute business logic, and generate the presentation layer for Web applications.
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