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