Can OracleAS Web Cache be used to accelerate OracleAS Wireless?
Yes. OracleAS Web Cache is certified for use with OracleAS Wireless. OracleAS Wireless is integrated with OracleAS Web Cache to improve page rendering performance and scalability. It should be noted that OracleAS Web Cache does not understand WAP and is not used by OracleAS Wireless in the traditional sense in that the cache does not “front-end” the wireless server. Instead, the cache is used as a repository for post-transformed content; the wireless runtime determines what content needs to be inserted into the cache and when to expire content in the cache. OracleAS Web Cache, in this case, acts as a device adaptation cache rather than a reverse-proxy cache. Since markup content is cached using OracleAS Web Cache, the performance and scalability benefits are due to two factors: 1) reduced device adaptation costs; and 2) significantly reduced adapter invocation costs. The savings in terms of device adaptation costs stem form the fact that content that can be shared across users and sess
