Architecture

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 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:

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