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Interfaces: The Next GenerationIntegration Broker and Similar Tools

Michael Stutz (360)757-2251michael@stutz.us (888)757-2616

Michael StutzInterfaces: The Next Generation

Integration Broker and Similar Tools

• Independent PeopleSoft Consultant• Started Technical• Do both Functional and Technical consulting• Primary Focus HCM and Campus Solutions• 25 years of IT industry experience• 16 years of PeopleSoft consulting experience• PeopleSoft v.2.11 – v.9.1• Lost Track of the number of PeopleSoft Projects I’ve been

on• Here at OHUG to network . . . • . . . and to share my insights on the future of interfaces in

the PeopleSoft environment

Agenda

• The Stage for Change• Term Demystification• What Change Looks Like• Integration Broker and Other Tools

Interfaces: The Next GenerationIntegration Broker and Similar Tools

History• 1925 – Smoke Signals• 1950 – The Telephone• 1975 – Greenbar (where most of our trees went)• 1985 – Magnetic Tape, followed by

Diskettes• 1995 – FTP• Today

The Stage is Set• PeopleSoft was designed from the ground

up as a transition for large enterprise computer systems:o from mainframe based o to Client / Server based systems

• Databases, although more advanced today, were, and still are where the vast majority of business data is stored

The Stage is Set• With Client / Server, business rules were

programmed into the online system and stored as Metadata . . .

• In our case, the Metadata is coding (PeopleCode) stored in the database instead of a program file:o Business rules defined & implemented on the

cliento Business rules defined & implemented on the

servero But ALL in the database as Metadatao . . . and ALL for the online portion of the system

• Which leads us to a big motivation . . . . . . business rules are duplicated in batch

programs . . . and so they also have to be maintained

separately

The Stage is Set• At the dawn of PeopleSoft, and still today,

the vast majority of Interfaces are executed using flat files on a batch basis

• For batch processing PeopleSoft doesn’t want us to mess with . . . they use COBOL

• For batch processing PeopleSoft knows clients will likely need to modify . . . they use and deliver SQRs:o Reportingo Interfaces

The Stage is Set

• Today . . . reports have been evolving:o PeopleSoft Queryo Crystal Reportso Business Intelligenceo Reporting Cubes

• But the interface evolution has only begun . . .

What Interface Change Looks Like

• Batch Mode of Interface . . . • Real Time Mode of Interface

o Non-human interventiono across the Internet . . .

• Removal of Business Rule Duplication• . . . with all of this, come a whole host of

technology and associated acronyms and terms

Hold onto your Seats . . .

• HTML• XML• WSDL• WSIL• UDDI• API

• Java• JMS• BEA• Tuxedo• Jolt• TCP/IP

Here Comes Demystification . . .

• HTTP• FTP• SMTP• SOAP• MIME• AJAX

HTML• Hypertext Markup Language• Uses “<“, “>”, “/”, and a few other characters

to designate code

<html><head></head><body>Hello World</body></html>

XML• Extensible Markup Language• Uses “<“, “>”, “/”, and a few other

characters to designate code, but continues on to be able to redefine itself.

XSD• XML Schema Definition• A way to describe and validate XML

data• Allows the same custom “tags” to be

read differently in different XML documents

WSDL• Web Services Definition Language• Common XML language specific to businesses

WSIL• Web Services Inspection Language• Common XML language used to inspect a site

for available services

UDDI / UBR• Universal Description, Discovery and

Integration• UDDI Business Registry• An internet directory where businesses

list themselves . . . and can discover each other

API• Application Program Interface• Prebuilt pieces of programs . . . used as

building blocks . . . to develop a program (or enhance another program) to interface with other systems

Java• The name of a software platform . . . • . . . a number of computer software products

and specifications from that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment

JMS• Java Message Server• A proprietary protocol & associated language

similar in function to HTTP and HTML, only more complex

Jolt• Java class library and API that provides an

interface to BEA Tuxedo from remote Java clients o The company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott

and Alfred Chuango Transactions for Unix, Extended for Distributed

Operations

TCP/IP• Transmission Control Protocol• Internet Protocol• The first two networking protocols

defined• Today's IP networking represents a

synthesis of two developments that began in the 1970s, namely LANs (Local Area Networks) and the Internet, both of which have revolutionized computing. (www.wikipedia.org)

HTTP• Hypertext Transfer Protocol• Protocol for data transmission on the internet• Original purpose to provide a way to publish

and retrieve HTML pages. Development of HTTP was coordinated by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), culminating in the publication of a series of (RFCs) Request for Comments like RFC 2616 (1999), which defines HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use today. (www.wikipedia.org)

FTP / SFTP

• File Transfer Protocol• SSH File Transfer Protocol• A common misconception is that

SFTP is simply FTP run over SSH; in fact it is a new protocol designed from the ground up by the IETF SECSH working group. It is sometimes confused with Simple File Transfer Protocol. (www.wikipedia.org)

Email• Specific Format & Layout• Commonly Used• Allows for Attachments

SMTP• Send Mail Transfer Protocol

POP• Post Office Protocol

IMAP• Internet Message Access Protocol

MIME• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions• is an Internet Standard that extends the

format of e-mail to support:o text in character sets other than US-ASCII;o non-text attachments;o multi-part message bodies; ando header information in non-ASCII character sets.

(www.wikipedia.org)• Most e-mail is transmitted via SMTP in MIME

format• The content types defined by MIME standards

are also used in communication HTTP and other protocols

SOAP• Simple Object Access Protocol• A way of communicating between

programs on different operating systems using HTTP and XML

URL/URI

• Uniform Resource Locator• Uniform Resource Identifier

AJAX

• Asynchronus• Javascript

o and• XML

Time to wake up . . .

What Change Looks Like

• First we have Client / Server Architecture • Which came hand in hand with

o GUI Interfaceso Business Rules Stored as Metadata

• Followed by o Components, o Component Interfaces, and o Application Engine

What Change Looks Like

• Moving more and more toward reuse of online metadata Business Rules in a batch mode

• Evolving into greater use of batch mode “non-human” Component Interface integration with the outside world . . . using all the various current technology . . . with some of the newer PeopleSoft delivered tools . . .o Integration Brokero XML Publishero Workflow

MENUCOMPONENT

What Change Looks Like

Page

Page

Page

DatabaseData:

Business Information

Metadata:

Business Rules

(PeopleCode)

Object Definitions

Component

Processor

User at a Keyboard

MENUCOMPONENT

What Change Looks Like

Page

Page

Page

DatabaseData:

Business Information

Metadata:

Business Rules

(PeopleCode)

Object Definitions

Component

Processor

User at a Keyboard

Component

Interface

Application

Engine

Integration

Broker

XML Publisher• Deals with the intricacies of XML• Allows you to set up and work with

templates• Associates your XML with data sources• Integrates with

o PeopleSoft Queryo PeopleCodeo Application Engine

Workflow• eMail

o Static and Dynamic Addressingo Embedding linkso SMS to telephones

• Interacts with . . .o Componento Component Interfaceo Application Engineo Integration Broker

PeopleSoft QueryInteracts with and key component in . . .

o XML Publishero Application Engineo Workflow

Integration Broker• Interface Direction

o Incomingo Outgoingo Round Trip

• Interface Synchronicityo Synchronouso Asynchronous

• Interface Formato Flat Fileso XMLo Excel Spreadsheeto Ajax, API, Web

Services, etc.• Processing

o Transformationso Translations,o Filtering

Interfaces: The Next GenerationSkills you will need . . . • Workflow• Application Engine• XML Publisher• Query• Integration Broker

Interfaces: The Next GenerationIntegration Broker and Similar Tools

Michael Stutz (360)757-2251michael@stutz.us (888)757-2616