Difference between Selenium Server & Web Driver

[Md Wasi]

HI friends,
 
I am new to Selenium a got lot of queries but the most basic one is what is difference between Selenium Server & Web Driver, which one is better as i use server.

[softwaretestingforum]

Hello Wasi,

Welcome to the group.
To be short, Webdriver is better then Selenium server as it has better support for IE, Chrome and Firefox browsers.
While using webdriver you don't have start/use the selenium server.

[Md Wasi]

thanks for ur reply can u plz elaborate how to use webdriver as i have read selenium documentation and i could not really understand them... thanks in advance

[softwaretestingforum]

Before answering that I need to know where you stand in terms of using Selenium?
What is your language preference for Selenium (java, C#, python etc)?

[Md Wasi]

I know java & C#. I have also executed test cases using Junit in Eclipse.

[softwaretestingforum]

That's good, now if you pin point what you could not understand exactly then I might be able to help.