All plug-ins can leverage a set of core services, such as the ability to acquire preference information in order to respond differently to requests for different users or different devices. A base set of transcoder plug-ins that transform Web content. A developer's toolkit to support building custom transcoder plug-ins. Custom transcoders can be used to process additional data formats, to extract the most important elements of a full screen application for display on a very small screen, or to improve the transcoding associated with specific Web applications. Administration services to give administrators control over configuration information and preference profiles.
Administrators can also view and control message and trace logging.
See the WBI site for basic information about WBI concepts. Intermediaries and Transcoding explains the relationship between WBI and the Transcoding Publisher. The default configuration of WBI is as a network intermediary. Transcoding Publisher also allows the framework to be tightly incorporated in other configurations. For example, the entire Transcoding Publisher can be configured to operate as a servlet, so that it can be administratively incorporated into the WebSphere Application Server to transcode the content produced by other servlets.