Rational Publishing Engine web services

IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine web services provides a remote engine, instead of the local engine that is used by a default IBM Rational Publishing Engine installation. The Launcher and Document Studio connect to a remote engine and transfer the publishing process to a more powerful machine. IBM Rational Publishing Engine web services are optional and you can install them based on your requirement.
IBM Rational Publishing Engine web services provides a server-side facility to relocate publishing operations, which can be resource intensive and time consuming, to a high-performance system. You can manually install Rational Publishing Engine web services. These web services generate documents on the server, thereby offsetting the workload on the client. To deploy Rational Publishing Engine web services, one of the following application servers is required:

The licenses can either be floating user-based licenses or authorized user-based licenses. Rational Publishing Engine web services can consume only floating licenses. If only authorized user-based licenses are purchased, Rational Publishing Engine web services cannot use them, and document generation fails.

Rational Publishing Engine does the following:

Restriction: The Rational Publishing Engine web services does not support thin clients. The client must be AXIS2 compatible.


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