Rational Publishing Engine Web Service

IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine web service provides a remote engine, instead of the local engine used by default in the Rational Publishing Engine installation. The Launcher and Document Studio connects to a remote engine and transfers the publishing process to a more powerful computer or server. Rational Publishing Engine Web Service is optional and you might choose to install it based on your business requirements.
Rational Publishing Engine web service provides server-side facility to relocate potentially resource and time-consuming publishing operations to a high-performance computer or server. Rational Publishing Engine web service is available as part of the installation. You can also manually install Rational Publishing Engine web service. Rational Publishing Engine web service generates documents on the server, offsetting workload on the client computer. As a requirement to deploy Rational Publishing Engine web service, the following application servers are required:

Rational Publishing Engine performs the following actions:

Note: The Rational Publishing Engine Web Service does not support thin clients. The client must be AXIS2 compatible.

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