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Plan for adapter implementation

To implement the IBM WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise, you must plan for inbound and outbound processing and consider security and performance requirements.

• 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.
• Security
  The adapter uses the J2C authentication data entry, or the authentication alias feature of Java™ EE security to provide secure user name and password authentication. For more information about security features, see the documentation for IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
• Support for protecting sensitive user data in log and trace files
  

  You can configure the adapter to prevent sensitive or confidential data, in the log and trace files, from being viewed by users without authorization.

• User authentication
  The adapter supports several methods for supplying the user name and password that are needed to connect to the PeopleSoft Enterprise server. By understanding the features and limitations of each method, you can pick a method that provides the appropriate level of security and convenience for your application.
• Deployment options
  There are two ways to deploy the adapter. You can either embed it as part of the deployed application, or you can deploy it as a stand-alone RAR file. The requirements of your environment affect the type of deployment option you choose.
• WebSphere Adapters in clustered environments
  

  You can improve adapter performance and availability by deploying a module on a clustered server environment. Clusters are groups of servers that are managed together to balance workloads and to provide high availability and scalability.

• Migrating to version 7.5.0.3 of WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise
  By migrating to version 7.5.0.3 of WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise, you automatically upgrade from the previous version of the adapter. Additionally, you can migrate your applications that embed an earlier version of the adapter, so that the applications can use features and capabilities present in version 7.5.0.3.
• Migrating WebSphere Business Integration applications
  

  You need to migrate the WebSphere Business Integration applications so that they become compatible with Version 7.5.0.3 of your adapter.

WebSphere Adapter for PeopleSoft Enterprise documentation

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