List of application servers

This list compares the features and functionality of application servers, grouped by the hosting environment that is offered by that particular application server.

C++

Tuxedo Based on the ATMI standard, is one of the original application servers.
Wt A web toolkit similar to Qt permitting GUI-application-like web development with built-in Ajax abilities.
POCO C++ Libraries A set of open source class libraries including Poco.Net.HTTPServer.html
CppCMS

Java

Apache MINA an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO
Netty a non-blocking I/O client-server framework for the development of Java network applications similar in spirit to Node.js

JavaScript

Broadvision Server-side JavaScript AS. One of the early entrants in the market during the eCommerce dot-com bubble, they have vertical solution packages catering to the eCommerce industry.
Bun implements Apple's JavaScriptCore engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. An open-source project with its own npm-compatible package manager, and many built APIs, tooling and utilities.
Node.js implements Google's V8 engine as a standalone (outside the browser) asynchronous Javascript interpreter. A vigorous open-source developer community on GitHub has implemented many supporting products, notably npm for package management and Connect and Express app server layers.
Deno community developed Rust project, spearheaded by Ryan Dahl who also created Node.js, it directly targets TypeScript but also supports JavaScript and WebAssembly via V8; employs asynchronous, event-based I/O model via promise-based APIs and Tokio scheduler, uses an API security model via FlatBuffers and implements package management via ES2015 modules.
Phusion Passenger

LPC

Dworkin's Game Driver (DGD)

Lua

.NET

Microsoft

Microsoft positions their middle-tier applications and services infrastructure in the Windows Server operating system and the .NET Framework technologies in the role of an application server:

Internet Information Services web server
.NET Framework (Windows Communication Foundation, Web Services, .NET Remoting, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), ASP.NET, ADO.NET)
Distributed Transactions, COM+
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Authorization Manager

Third-party

Mono Developed by Xamarin, licensed under MIT

Objective-C

GNUstepWeb - WebObjects 4.5 compatible, licensed under LGPL

PHP

Appserver.io, an open-source PHP application server.
RoadRunner, built by Spiral Scout is high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager written in Golang.

Python

Ruby

Smalltalk

Seaside A continuations based web application server

Tcl

AOLserver Forked from NaviServer after developer was bought by AOL in 1995
NaviServer Resumed independent development after AOL dropped AOLserver support.

Container Based

Container based application servers run each application in a container. The application can be written in any programming language.

OpenRun - Application server implemented in Go, which builds and runs web applications in a container.

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