You can deploy the IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine web
services on IBM WebSphere® Application Server version
6.1 to remotely generate the documents.
Before you begin
You must install
WebSphere Application Server 6.1
and
Rational Publishing Engine with
the web services feature before you can deploy the web services.

On Linux
computers, set these environment variables before deploying the web
services:
Table 1. Rational Publishing Engine environment
variables for LinuxVariable Name |
Description |
Example |
RPE_HOME |
The path to the root folder of the Rational Publishing Engine installation. |
/opt/IBM/Rational/Publishing Engine/version |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
The path to the lib folder
in the Rational Publishing Engine installation. |
/opt/IBM/Rational/Publishing Engine/version/lib |
Procedure
- Open the administrative console in a browser. Example: http://localhost:9043/ibm/console/logon.jsp
- Expand Applications and click Install
New Application.
- In the Path to the new application window,
select the path to rpe.war. By default, the archive
file is located in %RPE_HOME%\web services\engine\rpe.war.
- If you are using a local file, select Local file
system. Click Browse and select
the rpe.war file.
- If you are using a remote file, select Remote file
system. Click Browse and select
the rpe.war file.
- In the Context root field, enter
the context path as /rpe, and click Next. The context root is a part of the URL used for configuring
the client.
- In the How do you want to install the application field,
select Prompt me only when additional information is required and
click Next.
- Select these installation options:
- Optional: You can rename the application.
- Clear the Create MBeans for resources option.
- Select the Deploy Web services option.
- Click Next.
- In the Map modules to servers window,
select the Rational Publishing Engine module
and click Next.
- In the Map virtual hosts for Web
modules window, select Rational Publishing Engine and
click Next.
- Review the Summary and
click Finish. Application rpe.war_application installed
successfully displays in the process log.
- Click Save.
- Expand Applications and
select Enterprise Applications. The rpe.war application
you added is listed as the application name you entered.
- Open the Rational Publishing Engine application
properties by clicking the rpe.war_application.
- In the Detail Properties section, click Class
loading and update detection.
- For Polling interval for updated
files, enter a value in seconds.
- In the Class loader order section, select Classes
loaded with application class loader first.
- In the WAR class loader
policy section, select Single class loader for application.
- Click OK and Save.
- Select the rpe.war_application check
box and click Start.
What to do next
Confirm that the application is deployed:
- Open the introductory page of the Rational Publishing Engine web
services in a browser: http://server:port/rpe/.
- Copy the link to the web services definition schema: http://server:port/rpe/services/RPEService?wsdl.
This link is required to complete the Configuring the client applications for remote publishing task.
- If a load balancer is deployed, enter http://server:port/rpe/wsgate into
a browser to verify that the same web services definition schema link
displays: http://server:port/rpe/services/RPEService?wsdl.