Web content delivery methods

The type of delivery method you use to delivery Web content you your viewers will depend on the type of content being delivered, and the type of viewers your Web site is intended for.

• Accessing Web content via a servlet

  Users can access content displayed via the Web Content Management servlet by connecting to a URL. A servlet delivered Web site should be used when you don't need to use any WebSphere Portal based features such as authoring tools.

• Web Content Viewers

  Web Content Viewers are portlets that display content from a Web content library as part of a portal page. If your presentation is simple, a single Web Content Viewer can be sufficient, but you can also use multiple Web Content Viewers to aggregate content from different libraries and provide a richer experience for your users. There are two types of viewer that you can use: the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer and the traditional Web Content Viewer.

• Installing a pre-rendered delivery server

  You can pre-render a complete IBM Lotus Web Content Management site into HTML and save it to disk. The pre-rendered site can then be used as your live site and displayed to end users using either Web Content Management or a Web server. You deploy a pre-rendered site when you are not using any WebSphere Portal features and your content is static and is only updated periodically.

• Caching options

  Both IBM Lotus Web Content Management generated Web pages and content from external data sources can be cached by the Web Content Management application. If utilized correctly, Web Content Management caching can dramatically increase the performance of a site.

Parent topic:

Web Content Management concepts

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