To achieve faster performance in a large Oracle ATG Web Commerce application, it is best to keep as much content cached on the HTTP server as possible. This shortens the request handling process. Oracle ATG Web Commerce’s content distributor feature manages content across multiple HTTP and Oracle ATG Web Commerce servers, pushing content from the Oracle ATG Web Commerce document root to the HTTP servers’ document roots.
The Oracle ATG Web Commerce content distributor system consists mainly of three main components of:
DistributorSender components are installed on Oracle ATG Web Commerce servers open TCP/IP connections to a list of DistributorServer components and send put file and file check commands.
DistributorServer components are installed with HTTP servers. They accept TCP/IP connections from the DistributorSender components and create DistributorReader components to handle each such TCP/IP connection.
DistributorReader components handle the input from the DistributorSender, writing the files they receive to the HTTP server’s local file system or the document cache.
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