Rational® Publishing Engine is
an Eclipse-based application that is installed on the desktop of a
user workstation. You can choose to install additional web applications
on a server for creating documents in a remote environment.
Rational Publishing Engine clients
Rational Publishing Engine provides
the following clients for generating documents:
- Document Studio: Report authors can use this stand-alone application
to create templates that pull data from specified data sources. Document
Studio creates document template archive files (.dta).
- Launcher: You can generate documents from this stand-alone application.
The Launcher configures template output and generates reports through
document specification files (.dsx).
Additional components
When
you install the
Rational Publishing Engine clients,
you have the option to install the following additional components:
- Web services: You can relocate resource and time-consuming publishing
operations to another computer or server by using the web services
application.
- Data services and data source adapters: Rational Publishing Engine provides
a REST interface for IBM® Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational ClearQuest®, IBM Rational RequisitePro®,
and Rational TestManager
through data services adapters. If your product sources already have
a built-in XML data service, you do not need this feature.
- Monitor and control servlet: You can use the monitor
and control servlet to
check the status of jobs when the document generation runs on a central
server and when the document generation jobs are requested from different
clients. The monitor
and control servlet allows
the administrator to view all document generation jobs and to cancel
jobs, if necessary.
- Add-ins: These add-ins are available for IBM Rational DOORS® and IBM Rational Tau integrations.
You can use the add-ins to start publishing processes directly from Rational DOORS or Rational Tau.
If a valid installation of one of those products is found, the add-ins
are automatically installed. However, you can also install the add-ins
later
If you installed the web applications with
the Rational Publishing Engine clients,
the web applications are ready to deploy on the application server
when the installation is complete.
Application servers
Rational Publishing Engine does
not include an application server with its installation, so before
you can deploy
Rational Publishing Engine web
services, you must install one of the following application servers:
- Apache Tomcat 6.0.18
- WebSphere® Application Server 6.1
- WebSphere Application Server 7