About publishing clients

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 included with FileNet P8, 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 client provides a Java API for a web client to perform publish operations. The operations an application can perform are as follows: