Talking to the database on each request is not necessary because the content of my weblog does not change very often (for now =) ). So I like the idea of using a cache. Whenever I add a new entry I could send a notification to the cache and the cache would be flushed. So far so good. The tricky thing now is that I am using Tiles and putting a cache taglib into the tile would have no effect because the correspondig Action, which talks to the database, would still get called. Therefore I need a cache logic before the Action gets called. Currently I think the best solution would be to write a special filter. The filter would cache a defined URL, e.g. http://woeye.highteq.net/weblog/show.do?author=woeye and flush the cache on special events. Perhaps I should take a look at OSCache from OpenSymphony?

Any ideas or suggestions?