This preface describes what you can expect to find in this document, and contains the following:
About This Guide
What You Should Know
Typographic Conventions
User Roles
About This Guide
This guide describes the concepts you need to know to use iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft and how to configure and use the components provided with iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft. It describes how to write your servlet or Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) to access a PeopleSoft program on the mainframe. It also contains information about the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that you need to use.
What You Should Know
This guide assumes you are familiar with the following topics:
iPlanet Application Server Programming Concepts. See iPlanet Application Server Programmer's Guide for more details
The Internet and World Wide Web
PeopleSoft Programming Concepts
Java Programming Language
Documentation Conventions
File and directory paths are given in Windows format with backslashes separating directory names. For Unix versions, the directory paths are the same, except slashes should be substituted in place of backslashes.
This guide uses URLs of the form:
http://server.domain/path/file.html
In these URLs, server is the name of the server on which you run your application; domain is your Internet domain name; path is the directory structure on the server; and file is an individual filename. Italics items in URLs are placeholders.
This guide uses the following font conventions:
The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, pathnames, directory names, and HTML tags.
Italic type is used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
How This Guide Is Organized
This guide is organized into the following chapters:
Chapter 1, "Installation and Administration" describes concepts you should be familiar with before you set up iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft or use the API in servlets or EJBs. In addition, there is an overview of iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft, and iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft Administrator Responsibilities.
Chapter 2, "Managing Data Sources and User Privileges" discusses the iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft Management Console and data mining.
User Roles
This section describes the roles various users take, and their tasks.
People with a variety of skills are involved with the setup of iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft. Some of these users are listed below:
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System Administrator
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This is the person responsible for iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft installation.
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Systems or Business Analyst
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This person uses the PeopleSoft Data Mining Tool to define the PeopleSoft transactions that will be available through iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft.
This person uses the Management Console to specify levels of security, which end users have access to specific kinds of data, and performance characteristics such as pooling.
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Applications Programmer
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This person writes servlets or EJBs that call the UIF API.
This person also uses the Repository Browser to determine the available data types and access methods. This topic is discussed in
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PeopleSoft Programmer
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Writes new PeopleSoft programs that perform advanced communications with iPlanet Application Server for PeopleSoft.
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Supported Platforms
iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Connector for PeopleSoft currently supports the following platforms:
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Supported Platforms:
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Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 5
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Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.6
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Table 1
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Supported Platforms:
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Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 5
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Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.6
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