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:
DistributorSendercomponents are installed on Oracle Commerce Platform servers open TCP/IP connections to a list ofDistributorServercomponents and send put file and file check commands.DistributorServercomponents are installed with HTTP servers. They accept TCP/IP connections from theDistributorSendercomponents and createDistributorReadercomponents to handle each such TCP/IP connection.DistributorReadercomponents 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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