Integration Interfaces Preface

This preface provides an overview of Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Components Integration Interfaces documentation included in this PeopleBook.

Overview of Integration Interfaces

This PeopleBook describes PeopleSoft Enterprise integration technologies related to integrations from one PeopleSoft product to another, as well as integration between PeopleSoft and third-party production. The features and utilities that you use will depend on your PeopleSoft application.

This PeopleBook includes the following parts:

• Credit Card Interfaces. Describes how to use the PeopleSoft credit card processing interface to integrate with credit card processing vendors.

• PeopleSoft Directory Interfaces. Describes how to enhance the integration between PeopleSoft and your LDAP directory service by providing a single, centralized user profile for PeopleSoft and non-PeopleSoft applications.

• Enterprise Integration. Provides an overview of PeopleSoft Enterprise integration technologies for integration between PeopleSoft and third-party integration partners. Also describes how to set up and activate integration points.

• Enterprise Integration Utilities. Describes several PeopleSoft utilities that you can use to implement and troubleshoot integrations.

Note. Some of the page elements and colors that your product uses may differ from the screen shots presented in this PeopleBook. This book uses a generic style sheet for the purposes of illustration only.

PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library

A companion PeopleBook called PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library contains general information, including:

• Understanding the PeopleSoft online library and related documentation.

• How to send PeopleSoft documentation comments and suggestions to Oracle.

• How to access hosted PeopleBooks, downloadable HTML PeopleBooks, and downloadable PDF PeopleBooks as well as documentation updates.

• Understanding PeopleBook structure.

• Typographical conventions and visual cues used in PeopleBooks.

• ISO country codes and currency codes.

• PeopleBooks that are common across multiple applications.

• Common elements used in PeopleBooks.

• Navigating the PeopleBooks interface and searching the PeopleSoft online library.

• Displaying and printing screen shots and graphics in PeopleBooks.

• How to manage the locally installed PeopleSoft online library, including web site folders.

• Understanding documentation integration and how to integrate customized documentation into the library.

• Application abbreviations found in application fields.

You can find PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library in the online PeopleBooks Library for your PeopleTools release.