Cache management has arrived

With the arrival of a new API in Zope and a new product, Zope now lets you set up fine-grained object-level caching and highly customizable caching strategies.

Object-level caching lets you streamline time consuming tasks and increase your site's capacity by setting up cacheability for DTML methods, Python scripts, images, and files.

The cache management API lets you cache objects any way you like, using RAM, the filesystem, HTTP headers, or whatever strategy you develop. The API provides the glue between cacheable objects and cache managers. Cache managers are special Zope objects that either perform the caching themselves or communicate with external caches.

The new product (which requires either the CVS version of Zope or the soon-to-be-released 2.3 alpha 2), StandardCacheManagers, provides two cache manager types: the RAM cache manager and Accelerated HTTP cache manager. They are documented with Zope help files.