Complete these steps to prepare your environment for using
the APIs.
Procedure
- Verify that the System Requirements for Rational® Publishing Engine are
met.
- Verify that your operating system is supported.
- Verify that your JDK is compatible.
- Verify the Rational Publishing Engine installation:
- Verify that the %RPE_HOME%/config directory
exists and contains configuration files.
- Verify that the %RPE_HOME%/utils directory
exists and contains utility files.
- Verify that you have Rational Publishing Engine configured
for the client applications. A license is consumed while
the document generation is in process and the process fails if a license
is not found.
- Optional: Install a Java™ IDE for building your application. You can download a free Eclipse IDE from http://www.eclipse.org/ that
can be used for Java development.