Understanding AAWS

Admission Applications Web Services (AAWS) can be used by end user devices (such as a browser or a PDA), enterprise applications or any other third party software that can interface through standards based means.

AAWS can be used by:

• Oracle presentation technologies, such as Portal, Application Development Framework (ADF), and PeopleSoft components and pages.

• Oracle middleware (such as Enterprise Service Bus and BPEL).

• Oracle Applications (such as Enterprise, EnterpriseOne, and E-Business Suite).

• Third party presentation technologies

• Third party middleware and applications.

Different academic institutions have different needs for capturing admission application data. Also, application data can vary within the same academic institution between various campuses, departments, careers, and types of applicants. For example, application data for international and domestic applicants can vary within the same institution. This creates the need for institutions to develop their own online application user interface that can interact with the Campus Solutions system. With AAWS, institutions can connect their online application with the Campus Solutions system.

AAWS provides the SAD_ADMISSIONS service that enables access to the Campus Solutions Recruiting and Admissions functionality. The SAD_ADMISSIONS service provides the following service operations:

With these service operations, AAWS offers functionality in the following areas:

• Admission Applications: Users, such as applicants, can use an online application user interface to:

  • Create admission applications in the Campus Solutions system.

  • Save, update, or submit the applications.

  • Retrieve an application to make further updates.

• Application Attachments: Online application users can associate attachments of various formats with an admission application. Administrators can track these attachments using the Application Transactions and Maintain Application components.

Note that when an online application invokes SAD_SAVEAPPL or SAD_SUBMITAPPL service operation, the system generates an admission transaction. This admission transaction contains the admission application data that the user has saved or submitted. An admission transaction is defined and configured using the CTM pages and Application Configuration component. You can use the delivered Application Transactions and CTM Constituent Staging components to review, edit, and post the application and applicant data in an admission transaction. Additionally, you can choose to post the transactions in batch.

Constituent Transaction Management (CTM), which is a Campus Community feature, provides the following two service operations related to New User Registration (NUR):

You can use these NUR service operations to:

• Provide usernames and passwords for access to your online application.

• Authenticate users who want to retrieve a saved application for further edits and submission.

The List of Values framework is also a Campus Community feature. The framework provides the SCC_GET_LOV service operation. An online application can use this service operation to retrieve the list of values from the Campus Solutions system for data entry fields on the online application. This is useful only if the online application user interface is built outside of your Campus Solutions system.

AAWS uses the following Student Financials payment integration service operations to enable application fees calculation and payment:

All of these service operations use PeopleTools Integration Broker for interacting with the online application. Any online application user interface that is web-service enabled and SOAP compliant can access these service operations. AAWS adheres to open web service standards currently supported in the latest release of PeopleTools.

Before developing your online application user interface, we recommend that you use a SOAP service tester to become familiar with how the web services processes the admission application data and user information. One way to use a service tester could be by first passing the input parameters to a service operation and then viewing the service operation output.