Publishing Destination Types

A publishing destination type is the transport that the publisher selects for the delivery of a package to the intended audience. You can choose from the following destinations:

E-Mail

specifies a common method for delivering a package to recipients whose identities are known to the publisher.

 

Message Queue

specifies a place in application messaging where one program (such as SAS Publisher) can send messages that another program (such as SAS Package Retriever or a customized retrieval program) can retrieve. The two programs communicate asynchronously without any knowledge of where the other program is located or even whether the other program is running.

 

SAS Channel Subscribers

specifies a topic or identifier that acts as a conduit for related information. The channel carries the information from the publisher who creates it to the subscribers who want it.

The Publishing Framework administrator creates a channel for each distinct topic or audience. For example, users of a particular application might want a channel for discussion and data exchange, while the programmers of that application might want another channel to discuss technical problems and future enhancements. To be able to use them, the publisher must be aware of the channels that were defined in the Publishing Framework.

Archive

specifies a package that is compressed and saved to a directory file. You can also catalog the archive in an LDAP directory.

The archive contains the contents of a package and metadata that is necessary for extracting the contents. SAS Publisher compressed an archive using ZIP compression and saves it with an SPK extension. SAS Publisher then saves it to the location that you specified, which it remains available to users until its expiration date.

WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning-compliant server)

specifies an emerging industry standard that is based on extensions to HTTP 1.1. It lets package publishers, programmers, and package retrievers collaborate on the development of files and collections of files on remote Web servers. It also lets publishers publish packages to a Web-compliant server.