The server side component of the new document type runs inside the Aware IM server (as opposed to the client side component which runs inside the Configuration Tool). The server side component is mainly responsible for generation of documents from document templates – it goes through document template and generates documents by replacing tags encountered in the document template with the appropriate values of expressions contained inside the tags.

The server side component is a class implementing the IDocumentEngine interface. The following methods must be implemented by the class: