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Engine configuration
The Connect Server cooperates with different engines to handle specific tasks. A DataMapper
engine extracts data from a data file. A Merge engine merges the template and the data to
create Email and Web output, or to create an intermediary file for Printed output. The
intermediary file is in turn used by a Weaver engine to prepare the Print output. (For more
information see:"Connect: a peek under the hood" on page126).
Settings for these engines are made in the Connect Server Configuration tool (see "Server
Configuration Settings" on page89).
Connect allows for the parallelization of jobs. This means you can allocate 1 or more engines
to process jobs.
The number of each type of engine is configurable, as well as the amount of Merge engines
than can work together on the same job (determined by job size:small, medium or large) and at
what maximum speed.
The "Parallel Processing preferences" on page103 allow you to control precisely how the
PlanetPress Connect Connect Server handles jobs.
This gives you, as solution developer or application manager, full control of how to apply a
machines power. For example, you can share the available resources to process multiple jobs
at once or allocate all resources to process one single job as fast as possible, or anything in
between.
Connect distinguishes 5 type of jobs:
1. Small Print
2. Medium Print
3. Large Print
4. Email
5. Web
Connect categorizes print jobs on the number of pages they will produce. What constitutes a
Small, Medium or Large job can be configured per server (see below, in "Allocating
processing power to jobs" on page98).
There is no distinction between small, medium and large jobs for Email and Web output.
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