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:
- Web 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 Web Services application.
The Web Services application also
includes a Central
Management component and
a Monitor & Control component.
The Central
Management component is
a common asset storage system for accessing commonly used files in
your organization. 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.
- 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 web applications and
the Rational Publishing Engine clients
on a server for remote document generation, the web 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 Web Services application or
the
Data Services application,
you must install one of the following application servers: