Chapter 19: Configuring Web Caching

Highlights

Oracle10g Application Server provides a valuable caching server in addition to its web listener and application-server software. Web Cache (WC) is a caching listener that sits in front of the Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) and provides cached content to incoming client requests . This allows for faster delivery of content to clients and reduced processing for the back-end OHS, application server, and database components .

In this chapter, we'll cover the following:

• Overview. What WC provides and how to identify the architecture for a system using this component

• Configuring WC. How to configure WC to receive and pass requests to the appropriate OHS server

• Logging and monitoring. Identify the tools available to log WC usage and performance

• Cacheability rules and invalidation . How to set up caching rules for content managed by WC