App server can handle both static and dynamic pages, but why do we use webserver?

• Raja Reddy load balance

  
  
• Kabir Oberoi To reduce load on app server...

  
  
• Manjunath Mallela To act as proxy

  
  
• Surendra Raju web server manages load balancing and acts as proxy

  
  
• Anil Kumar Gadde proxy and static pages & loadbalancing perpose
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• Ruchir Khanna Webserver is to expose it to Web world : )
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• Sudhesh Pnair Webserver can act as reverse proxy,LB,caching

  
  
•  Suresh Kumar load balancing is the main concept... one more thing web server doen't handle .ear package. app server deploy the .ear files and as well.
• Madhu Reddy Load Balancing & Visualization & Maintain static data (images/pdf files )
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• Harshit Tripathi load balancing & also for security purpose....!!!

  
  
• Tatikonda Vamsikrishna load balancing and transfer the HTTP requests............

  
  
• Rashmi Singh ofcourse it acts as a proxy, load balancer, server virtualizaion etc.
  But also, if your application is serving static data, those requests can be handled by webserver itself which minimizes the load on app server.

  
  
• Venkat M Kanna And also providing more security on environments....so that we using webserver as seperate layer all the real time environments..