FME Workbench and FME Server

FME Workbench is the authoring environment for FME Server translations. It has functionality specifically for FME Server.

FME Desktop as an FME Server Authoring Tool

FME Server can be called a model-driven architecture, because the specification for a translation is expressed as a model. In FME, these models are better known as Workspaces.

Workspaces are created – we call it “authored” – using FME Desktop. In particular, the FME Workbench application is used. FME Workbench is a client of FME Server, and so they form a client-server pair. However, both share the same core engine and process data the same way.

The Workspace Authoring Workflow

The four basic steps to creating and using a workspace on FME Server are:

• Author the workspace in FME Workbench. • Publish the workspace from FME Workbench to FME Server. • Run the workspace on FME Server. • Maintain the workspace by downloading it from FME Server, making any required updates in FME Workbench, and re-publishing it back to FME Server.