Basic architectures
Two-stage environments
IBM recommends that at least two separate WCM applications be used...
- WCM application to create and manage Web content
- WCM application to render site, using the WCM servlet or the WCM Rendering Portlet.
The delivery application can be installed on the same WAS, but would more often be installed on separate servers to improve performance. Syndication is used as the transport layer that replicates data from one WCM application to another.
Three-stage environments
A third WCM staging application can be added between the authoring application and the delivery application.
Staging applications are used to push content to delivery applications in batches.
Test and production environments
The test environment is used to test and review...
- Changes to a web site
- Load-balancing
- Redundancy
- Caching delivery strategies
Once successfully tested, these changes can be implemented in the production environment and delivered to end-users.