This documentation is intended for the Arbortext Publishing Engine administrator. This document assumes advanced skill using networks, servlet containers, web servers, and HTTP protocols. To install, set up, and configure Arbortext Publishing Engine, you should have substantial experience as a web server administrator. To understand the information in this manual, you should be familiar with the implementation at your site and with standard system administration tasks.

In a typical implementation, a client program or web browser sends an HTTP or SOAP request to a web server. The web server interprets the URL and passes the request to the servlet container. The servlet container knows how to call Arbortext PE Request Manager from its own configuration file, and it constructs and passes a request object and a response object to the Arbortext PE Request Manager. From the request object, the Arbortext PE Request Manager determines the client who sent the request, what work to perform, and what data to return in the response object to the servlet container. In turn, the servlet container returns the response to the web server, which then returns it to the client making the request.

Refer to the Arbortext Publishing Engine glossary for a list of terms and definitions.