Content Engine supports several types of clients.
The Publishing Handler is responsible for transforming the content of a source document to a destination document. A COM API is provided for this type of client.
Other types are web clients. One web client is FileNet P8 Workplace, which is an out-of-the-box (OOTB) application, or custom client application, using thin client architecture. The FileNet P8 Workplace client, uses downloadable components that provide the capability to do more advanced authoring type functions. A Java™ API is provided for these types of clients.
The Workplace clients provide a Java API for a web client to perform publish operations. The operations an application would perform are as follows: