How the components work together

The XML data is processed and stored as XML in the CRF Submit database.
As each XML job is processed by the Document Generator server, PDF jobs are created.
The Document Generator server retrieves jobs from the PDF job queue on the CRF Submit server and starts Adobe Acrobat.
The CRF Submit server transforms the requested XML into HTML and sends it back to Adobe Acrobat.
Adobe Acrobat processes the HTML by expanding each link that points to the CRF Submit server.
Adobe Acrobat generates a PDF file from the HTML.

The resulting PDF and XML files are stored in the directory specified in the work order.