Web services

IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine web services provide a remote engine that can be used instead of a local Rational Publishing Engine engine. The Launcher and Document Studio connect to the remote engine and transfer the publishing process to another system. Rational Publishing Engine web services are optional and you can install them based on your requirements.

Rational Publishing Engine web services provides a server-side facility to relocate publishing operations, which can sometimes be resource intensive and time consuming, to a high-performance system. These web services generate documents on the server, which offsets the workload on the client.

License requirements for web services

Rational Publishing Engine 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.

Web services capabilities

The web services application can complete the following tasks:

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


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