What is application-aware Web caching?
With OracleAS Web Cache, IT organizations no longer face the trade-off between feature-rich page design and application performance. OracleAS Web Cache understands the contents of HTTP headers — including cookies — and is capable of making caching and routing decisions based on administrator or application-defined caching rules. This “application awareness” makes it possible to cache different content for different categories of users, such as the ability to show full prices to new customers and discounted prices to returning customers. When required, OracleAS Web Cache also guarantees the integrity of transactions, such as shopping cart purchases, by using cookies and session IDs for persistent, or “sticky”, connections to Web servers. And with in-cache personalization, partial-page caching and content assembly features, even highly dynamic Web pages — e.g., those that contain personalized attributes, session-encoded URLs, and non-cacheable page fragments — can take advantage of O
