SAS 9.1.3 Integration Technologies » Developer's Guide

Publishing Framework
About Packages
Package Content
Package Rendering
Transports
Archived Packages
Subscription Channels
About Events
Publishing
Publishing Using SAS Publisher GUI
Publishing Programmatically Using SAS
Publishing Using a Third-Party Client Application
Package Retrieval
URL Retrieval
Viewer Processing
SAS Publisher
SAS Subscription Manager
SAS Package Reader
SAS Package Retriever
Publish Package CALL Routines
Publish Event CALL Routines
See also:
Administering the Publishing Framework
Administering the Publishing Framework (LDAP Version)
Publishing Framework

Package Transports

The destination (or transport) for delivering a package is defined in the Where to Publish tab of the SAS Publisher GUI or programmatically in a SAS application using PACKAGE_PUBLISH CALL routines.

Transports are the following:

Archive
a single binary collection of all the items in a package. An archived package is also referred to as an SPK file, which is short for SAS Package.

Channel
a conduit through which the defined transport (either e-mail or message queue) delivers package items to the subscriber of the channel. The subscriber defines the preferred transport using personal subscription properties.

E-mail
mechanism for delivering selected package items to identified recipients.

Message Queue
in application messaging, a place where the publisher can send a message (or a package) that can be retrieved by another program for continued processing.

WebDAV-Compliant Server
an acronym for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. Whereas the traditional transports (archive, channel, e-mail, and message queue) are repositories for published package data that can be retrieved and reprocessed in a synchronous fashion, a WebDAV-compliant server facilitates concurrent access to and update of package data on the Internet.