Maybe I'm being pedantic, but to me, an application server is something that you write programs for in a general-purpose programming language - that's how datab

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but to me, an application server is something that you write programs for in a general-purpose programming language - that's how databases (where code is written in sql or something similar) don't qualify. Programs that run within application servers are written in langauges like Java and C#. To my knowledge, there are no app servers designed to run code written in C++. Certainly, none that are mainstream.