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Ceptor Dispatcher is deprecated and replaced by Ceptor Gateway which offers much more functionality than is provided by the dispatcher. Existing customers should migrate from Dispatcher to Gateway as soon as possible, and new customers must not take the dispatcher into use. |
Ceptor Dispatcher is a Reverse Proxy Server, which is typically deployed in a DMZ zone.
It is capable of running in a servlet container of your choice, or it can run in the Web Server provided by Asseco Ceptor as part of the distribution.
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But, newer deployments should use Ceptor Gateway instead of the Dispatcher, since it contains more funtionalityfunctionality, and is easier to configure. Also, new features will be added to the gateway, but in general not to the dispatcher.
What does the
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Dispatcher do
The Dispatchers job, is basically to forward requests to web application servers. It also assigns session id’s to browsers, and performs load-balancing by assigning servers to users. The dispatcher also makes sure that clients reach the same server for every request they perform, so session state information can be kept in memory on the application server, instead of sharing it via databases.
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An URL ending with “.errorstatistics” returns a page listing the last 100 errors that has have occurred in the dispatcher while processing requests. This can give valuable information about the current state of the system.
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