Rational® Publishing Engine is
an Eclipse-based application that is installed on the desktop of a
user workstation.
Figure 1. Rational Publishing Engine architecture

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:
- Remote services application: You can relocate resource and time-consuming
publishing operations to another computer or server by using the Remote
document generation component contained in the Remote services application.
The Remote services application also includes:
- Central Management component: The Central Management component
is a common asset storage system for accessing commonly used files
in your organization.
- Monitor & Control component: Administrators can use the Monitor &
Control component administrative user interface to check the status
of all document generation jobs that are requested from different
clients to run remotely. The administrator can then help troubleshoot
or cancel jobs, if necessary.
- Report scheduler component: With the Report scheduler component,
you can schedule remote document generation jobs at a specific time
or interval.
- Reporting data services application and Reporting Data Services
Adapters: Rational Publishing Engine provides
REST interfaces for IBM® Rational ClearCase®, IBM Rational ClearQuest®,
and IBM Rational RequisitePro® through
the Reporting Data Services Adapters. If your data source already
has a built-in XML data service, you do not need these features.
- 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.
If you installed the remote applications and
the Rational Publishing Engine clients
on a server for remote document generation, the remote 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 the
Rational Publishing Engine Remote
services application or the Reporting data services application, you
must install one of the following application servers: