Adapter for PeopleSoft environment
Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter,
you must understand its environmental requirements.
Broker compatibility
The Adapter for PeopleSoft runs with the IBM WebSphere(R) Business
Integration Server Express Adapter FrameworkV2.6 and uses InterChange
Server Express as the integration broker.
Adapter platforms
This adapter requires one of the following Windows operating
systems:
- All operating system environments require the Java(TM) compiler
(IBM JDK 1.4.2 for Windows(R) 2000)
for compiling custom adapters
- Windows:
Windows XP with Service Pack 1A, for WebSphere Business
Integration Server Express Adapter Framework (administrative tools
only)
Windows 2003 (Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition)
Adapter dependencies
The adapter has the following software prerequisites and
other dependencies:
- The connector requires two layers of PeopleSoft API classes.
Make sure that these API classes are available:
- psjoa.jar-- The connector uses this API to connect to the Application
Server through BEA Systems' Jolt port, and to send objects
through the Application Server. This file is included with PeopleTools. Save
it to the directory where you will install the connector.
For more information on retrieving PeopleSoft's API
files, see PeopleSoft's Installation and Administration Guide.
- Component
Interface API--The connector accesses this layer only after
a session object has been created and a connection to the PeopleSoft
Application Server has been established using psjoa.jar. The Component Interface API provides access to all of a
Component Interface's exposed objects and PeopleCode methods.
You must manually generate this API in Application Designer.
- A user account must exist in PeopleSoft for the connector, and
it must be configured so that it does not time out. Also, it must
use PeopleSoft security, and have privileges to insert, update,
retrieve, and delete data from pages, components, and component
interfaces in the PeopleSoft system.
- For InterChange Server Express, delete any previously installed
versions of the connector. Also, delete all previous customizations
made in PeopleSoft for the connector. For example, delete all connector-related Menus,
Pages, Records, Message Definitions Components, and Component Interfaces.
Also, delete the connector's event and archive tables.
Typically, these objects are stored in a connector-specific project
that you can open in Application Designer.
Note:
If you install an IBM WebSphere Business Integration
Server Express Adapter on the same machine as a previous installation
of the connector for InterChange Server Express, the InterChange
Server Express connector will not run unless you manually switch
the IBM WebSphere system environment variable to point to the desired
product path.
- Required Fields, Pages, Records, Components, and Component Interfaces
must be defined in your PeopleSoft application.
