Web content delivery environments

A delivery environment is used to deliver content to your website viewers.

Pre-rendered delivery

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

In a pre-rendered delivery environment, content is syndicated from the authoring server to the delivery server. The content is converted into a set of static HTML files, which are then displayed to users through a web server.

Servlet delivery

Users can access content displayed using the Web Content Manager servlet. A servlet delivered website is used when you do not need to use any portlet-based features such as authoring tools.

In a servlet delivery environment, content is syndicated from the authoring server to the delivery server. The content is displayed by the Web Content Manager servlet and made available to users through a web server.

Local web content viewer delivery

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. A local web content view portlet is used to display content within your web content delivery environment.

In a delivery environment using a local web content viewer, content is syndicated from the authoring server to the delivery server. It is displayed to users through a web content viewer portlet in a portal. When a local web content viewer is used, the web content viewer is installed on the same server as Web Content Manager.

Remote web content viewer delivery

WSRP support in the web content viewer is used to display content on a remote WebSphere Portal server or cluster.

In a delivery environment using a remote web content viewer, content is syndicated from the authoring server to a Web Content Manager server in the delivery environment. The web content viewer is installed on the Web Content Manager server. It is configured to communicate with the WSRP proxy portlet installed on another portal server in the delivery environment. Users view web content by accessing the proxy portlet on the remote portal server, typically through a web server.