Configuring the "wso2caching" Module

The wso2caching module is a web services caching module for WSO2 products as well as Apache Axis2. This implements both the server-side and client-side caching. Using the management console of a Carbon server, you can enable caching at global level, operational level or service level. You can also engage caching manually by editing the configuration file of a service.

Follow the instructions below to configure the wso2caching module on a global-level.

1. Find the wso2caching module in the "Deployed Modules" list and click "Configure".

2. The Global Caching Configuration page appears with the last saved configuration or the default configuration (if it is the first time). In the Enable Caching list, select Yes.

For example,

Fields in the Wizard:

• Hash Generator - This specifies the fully qualified class name of the hash value generator. This class implements the org.wso2.caching.digest.DigestGenerator interface. It is responsible for generating a Hash value for each request message, so that a matching response message can be located from the cache. The default is org.wso2.caching.digest.DOMHASHGenerator. You can implement your own Hash generator class and use it with the WSO2 Data Services Server. However, the default hash generator is good enough for general use.
• Timeout - This is the time period, in milliseconds, which a cached response is kept in memory for. The counting starts from the time the first request is received. Any request received after the counter has started and is within the Timeout period, is served with the response cached upon receiving the first request. Once the Timeout expires, the cache will be updated with the response generated for the first request that was received after the expiry.
• Maximum Cache Size - This holds the maximum number of response messages that will be cached. If the maximum number of responses are already cached and none of the cached responses' Timeouts have expired, then future responses are not cached until this memory is free enough to accommodate caching a new response.
• Maximum Message Size - The response message that is cached. Response messages larger than this (in size) are not cached. Caching is an expensive operation for larger messages, especially given the amount of memory required. Therefore this value should be set considering the performance and resource trade-offs.