APIs in Standards Processing Engine

APIs initiate actions in, and receive results from, Standards Processing Engine. Any SPE function can be driven through APIs.

This is a summary of the public APIs for the SPE with their functions. See the reference topics for an overview or the Javadoc files for details.

For information on the REST APIs, see REST APIs overview.

Table 1. Public APIs for SPE
API Function
Event The Event API is used to handle the generated events that occur during Standards Processing Engine processing.
Export Exports current SPE configurations to an XML file.
Import Imports a configuration into Standards Processing Engine from an XML file.
setSPEProperties Determines the location of the customer_overrides.properties file.
SPE Performs the central SPE functions (enveloping, de-enveloping, and transformation) and accesses the SPE database tables.
Storage Abstracts the streaming and storage of input and output documents.
Transform() Transforms a document from one format to another using a map. Map types include WebSphere® Transformation Extender maps, Sterling B2B Integrator maps, and XSLT scripts.
Validate Validates a document to determine whether it conforms to an XML schema.