What is difference between Virtual Application and Application Virtualization ?

Application Virtualization :

Application virtualization is concept where application is installed in remote machine that remote machine is generally termed as server compuer . Server computer in general can be commodity hardware or high computing hardware based upon requirement. Sometime while writing on registry of windows using .Dll (dynamic linking libraries) file , it causes problems if it is overwritten by other factors. So here in this case application virtualization is used and registry are set using .dll files stored at server PC.

Here, I am suggesting very useful application of Application virtualization ,

1. Install/Purchas one windows office suit in windows server OS
2. Create Simple LAN networks.
3. Then using application virtialization end user are provided with web based office and office application will run on that server office and end user will have experience of Application virtualization.
4. Here computation is done by server Pc and user will get output data only and file with respected extension .

• NOTE :


• Here very important thing must be noticed that Google doc can't be considered as application virtialization because it also stores file at server side .

  Virtual Application :

It is totally different than application virtualization and both are having very different purposes.

Virtual application works as intermediate interface to make end application PLATFORM INDEPENDENT . Like one can't run .exe in LINUX operating system similarly there are many ubuntu opensource that can't work in Windows environment. So there must be some solution for that and it is provided by Concept of virtual Application. 

I will make it more clear with example,

• JVM(Java Virtual Machine) is best example of Virtual Application
• Once JVM is installed in machine you need to code in java and and machine can run .java file using jvm.
• Here , JVM works as interface between .java and Real OS compatibility. And works as virtual application.
• Wine is layer software application and one of the example of virtual application
• wine is tool , layer software application used to run .exe file in lunb