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Before you begin
Before you begin to set up and use the adapter, you need to possess a thorough understanding of business integration concepts, the capabilities, and requirements of the integration development tools and runtime environment you use, and the PeopleSoft Enterprise environment where you build and use the solution.
To configure and deploy WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise, you need to understand and have experience with the following concepts, tools, and tasks:
- The business requirements of the solution you are building.
- Business integration concepts and models, including the Service Component Architecture programming model.
- The capabilities provided by the development tools you use to build the solution. You need to know how to use these tools to create modules, test components, and complete other integration tasks.
- The capabilities and requirements of the runtime environment used for the integration solution. You need to know how to configure and administer the host server and how to use the administrative console to set and modify property definitions, configure connections, and manage events.
- PeopleSoft integration architecture, including the relationship between component interfaces and underlying components.
- The PeopleTools version that supports your applications. You need to be able to use PeopleSoft Application Designer to access the object definitions that compose a business application, and to create and add projects to components.
- The programming environment required by PeopleSoft (PeopleCode).
You need to understand the role of PeopleCode within components, and know how to add PeopleCode to the projects you create in PeopleSoft Application Designer.