Architecture

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:

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