Can the virtualization server help me detect dead links in my webapp?
Yes, it already does. The link validation feature built into the Alfresco 2.1 webapp GUI uses the virtualization server to fetch pages in the website. These pages are hyperlinks, which are validated as well. Note that because link validation is done by fetching the page as a browser would, both static and programmatically generated links are validated. In order to build self-consistent link validation reports, the pages being virtualized within the staging area are all taken from the same snapshot. Thus, the combination of AVM’s built-in versioning feature and the virtualization server’s ability to virtualize an archived edition makes it possible to construct validation information incrementally (from checkin to checkin), and eliminate all “version skew” from the reports it creates.
