This topic applies to WebSphere Application Server Liberty V8.5.5.9 and earlier. For the latest Liberty topics, see the WebSphere Application Server Liberty documentation.
Web Response Cache
This feature enables local caching for web responses. It includes the distributedMap feature and performs automatic caching of web application responses to improve response times and throughput. Applications can include a cache-spec.xml file to customize the response caching. The cache may be distributed through addition of a network cache provider such as WebSphere eXtreme Scale.
Enabling this feature
To enable the Web Response Cache feature, add the following element declaration inside the featureManager element in your
server.xml file:
<feature>webCache-1.0</feature>
Developing a feature that depends on this feature
If you are developing a feature that depends on the Web Response Cache feature, include the following item in the Subsystem-Content header in the feature manifest file for your new feature:
com.ibm.websphere.appserver.webCache-1.0; type="osgi.subsystem.feature"