Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) introduces significant enhancements to Oracle Application Server Web Cache in the areas of performance monitoring, security, caching, invalidation, compression, load balancing, logging, diagnostics, and manageability.

Oracle Application Server Web Cache includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Instrumentation for End-user Performance Monitoring
• Support for client-side SSL certificates and nCipher SSL acceleration hardware
• More flexible multi-version caching rules for browser types
• Invalidation search keys and inline invalidation
• Self-describing compression policies
• Support for session binding in a cache cluster
• Improved rollover options for access logs and event logs
• More flexible and complete access log definition
• More verbosity levels for event logging
• Improved remote diagnostic tools
• Reporting on popular cache misses
• Integration with Oracle Process Management and Notification (OPMN)
• Dynamic configuration for select parameters