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A computer,
or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service
to client software running on other computers. The term can
refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server,
or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g. "Our
mail server is down today, that's why e-mail isn't getting
out."
A single
server machine can (and often does) have several different
server software packages running on it, thus providing many
different servers to clients on the network.
Sometimes
server software is designed so that additional capabilities
can be added to the main program by adding small programs
known as servlets.
See
also: Client,
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