Hi, Check http://www.opensymphony.com/oscache/ , you may find it interesting.
Greetings, deacon Marcus > -----Original Message----- > From: Gunnar Wagenknecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PageCaching Feature > > > Hi! > > I'm wondering if it is possible to implement a page chaching mechanisme > into the Tomcat Engine? Did anyone thought about this before? Where can > I find suitable development documents to evalutate the implementation of > such a functionality into the Tomcat Engine? > > I currently evaluating and working on some proposals for an extensive > web application. To speed up performance and to reduce the load it would > be great to add a HTML comment tag (for example: <!-- PAGECACHE > created="date×tamp" expires="hours:minutes" -->) to the HTML Output > Stream. It is not crucial whether this tag was inserted into a JSP or by > a Servlet. Tomcat than realizes that it should cache this result that > was returned by calling the specific URL and safes the complete HTML > output stream into a file on the disc. > > Next time this URL is retrieved Tomcat first looks, if there is a cached > page available and if this page is not obsolete. If there is a valid > cached page, Tomcat doesn't need to call the WebApplication instead > Tomcat can return the result immediatly. Of curse the evalutation of the > URL is not simple because you have to look for URL path and parameter > and it should pe possible to tell the page caching mechanisme which URL > parameters a sensible and which it should ignor. > > What do you guys think of this? I'm not an experienced developer that's > why I'm asking you where I can start. What do you expect about the > complexity (development/implementation time) of such a feature? > > Until today I only saw solutions with an "adapter application" between > the webserver and the web applcation. But this adapter application has > to be developed for every webserver API which you want to support. But I > plan to access Tomcat directly and not over a web server. > > Cu, Gunnar > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
