Presentation Server
Presentation Server enables your organization to deliver robust and scalable Web sites and Web applications. Presentation Server provides storage management, link management and cache management to manage large, complex and high-performance environments.
Description
Storage management
Content deployed to Presentation Server is stored in either a file system or a relational database (Oracle®, Microsoft SQL Server®, and IBM DB2®). This flexibility allows your organisation to integrate advanced applications in your Web sites. Presentation Server stores pages, XML content, binaries and metadata published from Content Manager.
Link management
Presentation Server manages links between published content items. Link management resolves and renders links between pages, binaries and content at request time. As a result, only valid links are displayed to Web site visitors.
Cache management
Cache functionality optimises site performance. Presentation Server cache stores commonly used and accessed items so that the Web site displays this content quickly. You can fine-tune the cache to specify the objects that should be cached.
Benefits
Cross-platform support
You can integrate Presentation Server into any J2EE or Microsoft .NET infrastructure. Presentation Server runs on top of standard application servers including IBM WebSphere®, BEA WebLogic® and Microsoft Internet Information Server® (IIS). This flexibility ensures that you can:
- Integrate SDL Tridion content management into a heterogeneous environment
- Use the best application for Web site delivery
- Protect existing investments
Scalability
Presentation Server can be implemented into many environments ranging from single Web servers to large Web farms with multiple servers in a fail-over configuration. Presentation Server can be used for low-traffic Web sites and high-volume Web sites alike.
High performance
Presentation Server runs on top of your existing Web infrastructure by adding a light-weight layer which provides specific Web site services.