Modern application server is a complex platform that is most important from a corporate environment that includes a very broad range of technology-format web documents, web protocols, server-side script, servlet, applet, programming languages, distributed object technology, security capabilities, directory and naming services, load balancing, management systems, and others. Application Server for E-Business helps you understand the use of server applications in e-business. This book presents a comprehensive picture of technology related to application servers in their facilitation of E-business. These technologies include CORBA, Java, Enterprise Java Beans, Java 2, web server, and legacy systems. This material also includes implementation considerations for server applications, including security, scalability, load balancing, and one mistake tolerance.Chapter gives an overview of server applications, computational evolution took us from a hierarchical, mainframe-centric environment with a web model of computing, and the reasons for E-commerce and E-business. The book concludes with chapter seven, a chapter which presents some examples of the benefits of server applications in large companies.