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How It Works

The document engine DocBase is designed and implemented as a component-based architecture. According to the requirements at a customer’s site components can easily be assembled to solve the task, whether the solution is built from scratch or must be integrated into an existing document formatting/printing environment. Often, custom-made components must be set up to perfectly integrate into an existing infrastructure. For this purpose a set of template and sample components is available which ease and speed up the development process.

DocBase Components

DocBase components are divided into 5 categories:

Communication Provides communication services for the integration of internal and external components.
Data Acquisition Acquire data from one or several data sources such as RDBMS, Flatfile, SAP or others.
Pre-Format Prepare layout definitions and data for rendering process. Convert and merge document fragments with document definitions (XSL-FO).
Format Renders document definitions (XSL-FO) into PDF or Postscript document format.   
Publish/Distribute Send rendered documents to a printing infrastructure, eMail them to a receiver using built in eMail service or prepare and send them to an archival- or CRM system.

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