Please tell me the Difference between web server, web container and application server.

Got question about WebSphere and cannot find anything in the documentation... What happens when WebContainer thread pool is fully used and new request is received? I am talking about the situation...

Okay. This is again a question of industry practice. Tomcat = Web Container JBoss, WebLogic, etc = Application Servers that have Web Container within (for JBoss, its forked Tomcat) Spring does ...

I understand that web containers like jboss have a parameter to mention the number of threads of the servlet to create, which is the maximum number of threads the container can create to run on a S...