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I’ve no experience with TerraCotta or ehCache (heard good things about both but haven’t got round to looking at them yet). memcached is the only cache plugin I’ve seen for Roller.

It could probably be tweaked to talk to whatever you like, so long as there’s a get/put/delete operation to map to. It’s all open source, take a look

thanks for the response.

memcached : I understood how’s it is used.

Sorry, I was not being clear. My question was about the memcache plugin in Roller. I was asking along the lines of the possibility of the existence of a plugin for Terracotta/ehCache to do the same thing.

2nd question : if such a plugin for Terracotta/ehcache existed, then, how modular is it ? What would it take to make any other content management system use it to work with
1) ehcache/Terracotta
2) memcached

thank you,

BR,
~A

Roller does page-level caching out of the box - i.e. it stores the content it sends to clients n a directory and serves those static files until they become invalid (when a comment or post arrives).
This model works well for things like blogs where most of the pages aren’t session specific, and content is read much more often than its updated.

The roller memcached plugin is a drop-in replacement for the file cache.

Memcache is essentially just a distributed hash, which turns out to be very versatile, extremely simple (there are 2 operations in the API, get() and put()), and insanely fast.

More importantly it’s language agnostic, you can use the same bunch of memcacheds to cache Rails apps, for example.

Have a look at the memcached page for more information (top of post).

thanks for writing this up.

How does Roller use Memcache ? Is this component modular ? Can other software use this easily ? Does Roller have a Terracotta/ehCache plugin, with similar functionality as memcache’s ?

thank you,

BR,
~A