Before you use the Adapter for PeopleSoft, verify that your system has the required software. Also, you must perform operations such as creating the connector's user account, mapping an environment variable, and generating PeopleSoft APIs. This section describes:
To access a designated Component Interface and its underlying PeopleSoft business logic, the connector requires two layers of PeopleSoft API classes. Before you use the connector, install the following:
%PS_HOME%\web\PSJOA
Save this file to the directory documented in "Installed file structure on Windows". For more information on retrieving PeopleSoft's API files, see PeopleSoft's Installation and Administration Guide.
This section describes required operations that must be performed before you use the connector:
%ProductDir%\connectors\PeopleSoft\dependencies
Also ensure that psjoa.jar is defined in the CLASSPATH.
Before installing the connector, you must create a user account in the PeopleSoft application. The account:
Because the connector uses the Component Interfaces (and the Component Processor on the Application Server) to insert and extract business objects from the PeopleSoft database server, the Application Server must be running. If the user account times out, the Component Processor closes, and the connector logs an error message every time it attempts to access the PeopleSoft system (that is, at every poll, at every create, at every retrieve, and at every update).
To configure the user account to never time out, do the following: