About publishing clients

Content Engine extends the standard functionality to provide publishing support. For the most part, it uses standard Content Engine extension mechanisms, such as sub-classing and metadata configuration. A few features are added to Content Engine itself to support publishing that makes it a publishing server.

One type of client can use publishing from the Content Engine Server. The publishing handler manages and 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: