The present invention provides an application managing apparatus and an application managing method, in which, after an incorporated equipment such as a copying machine, a printer, a multi function printer (MFP) having copier, printer and facsimile functions and a digital camera is forwarded, it is possible to install the program into the incorporated equipment and to start the installed program. When a name of a service to be installed and program data of the service are sent from a web browser to an install servlet as installation instruction of a program by HTTP protocol, the install servlet stores the program data in an external storing device as a file and registers a path storing the program and the service name in a class path management portion.