Does Zoomify work with Akamai and other edge servers?
Zoomify’s default ‘folder-based storage’ involves just JPEGs, HTML, and a tiny Flash movie which functions as the ‘viewer’. This zoom-and-pan solution is completely standard in terms of web server hosting, caching, and other publishing considerations. Whether working with Akamai or another ‘edge server’ system, the small JPEG image files which make up any Zoomify view will be propagated over the network optimally and independently based on demand – just as if they were individually placed within a web page. Zoomify’s ‘one-file’ storage approach, in which the JPEG files that make up different views of an image are stored in a single file with a ‘.PFF’ extension, involves the use of a small Java servlet for fulfillment of file requests during the zoom-and-pan viewing of site visitors. Due to Java security requirements, the servlet may need to be distributed to the edge servers to support image file delivery from the edge network servers.
