Services

The Content Engine service receives Enterprise Content Management (ECM) requests from client applications, such as requests to create a document or folder, or retrieve document content. The Content Engine Java™ 2 Extended Edition (J2EE) application hosts this service along with a set of asynchronous background tasks. Some of these background tasks handle asynchronous activities such as event processing, publishing, and document classification. Other background tasks perform system maintenance operations on network accessible resources within a FileNet P8 domain. The service and background tasks are installed as part of Content Engine and function only within the single FileNet P8 domain. Each Content Engine installation hosts a service for client interaction, but can enable or disable the various background tasks as required, to provide the following functionality: