HP e-Commerce / XML director server appliance sa8250 - Users Guide

Introduction
Introduction to the SA8250
The HP e-Commerce/XML Director Server Appliance SA8250
provides the flexibility to classify and load balance Extensible
Markup Language (XML) traffic according to content and distribute
it according to user-defined parameters. The SA8250 makes it easy
to use the most appropriate resources at the datacenter to handle
incoming requests.
The SA8250 is positioned in the network in front of the web,
application, or business-to-business (B2B) XML servers, where it
senses and parses XML messages or transaction data. It routes client
data to the most appropriate server, based on rules that have been pre-
configured for each web server. The most common application is a
B2B environment where the client will often be another server or
application.