OSCache
Encyclopedia
OSCache is "a Java framework" developed by OpenSymphony
that makes it easy to cache
content in Web application
s.
According to OpenSymphony, OSCache
OpenSymphony
OpenSymphony was an Open Source computer software project dedicated to providing enterprise class Java EE components. OpenSymphony shut down sometime around 2009-2010, but some of the subprojects are now maintained elsewhere...
that makes it easy to cache
Cache
In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...
content in Web application
Web application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
s.
According to OpenSymphony, OSCache
- is a caching solution that includes a JSPJavaServer PagesJavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...
tag library and set of classes to perform fine grained dynamic caching of JSPJavaServer PagesJavaServer Pages is a Java technology that helps software developers serve dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, or other document types...
content, servlet responses or arbitrary objects. - provides both in memory and persistent on disk caches.
- can allow your site to have graceful error tolerance (eg if an error occurs like your db goes down, you can serve the cached content so people can still surf the site almost without knowing).