Understanding Financial Aid Web Services
Technical developers, consultants and, implementers should use this document to learn about the technologies used by the web service and to determine the scope of data that the web service can exchange between a self service user interface (that the academic institution may build) and the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system. Business and functional analysts should use this document to understand how the web services function.
This topic is intended for users who are familiar with:
A tool or technology to build and deploy the user interface.
PeopleCode.
Web services concepts, mainly XML, SOAP, and WSDL.
PeopleSoft Integration Broker .
Campus Community ‘Entity Registry’ functionality.
Campus Solutions Financial Aid functionality.
Financial Aid Web Service can be used by end user devices (such as a mobile phone or a tablet), enterprise applications or any other third party software that can interface through standards based means.
Financial Aid Web Service can be used by:
Oracle presentation technologies (such as PORTAL, Application Development Framework [or 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.
Overview
Institutions have different needs, requirements and preferences for interacting with their students during the financial aid process. It is essential that the interaction between the student and institution is convenient, simple to use, and powerful for both the institution and the student. The User interface (UI) through which a student interacts with the institution can vary. For many campus audiences the interface of choice could be a range of current generation handheld devices (smart phone, tablets, blackberry, etc). However, options like conventional web browser based access (such as PeopleSoft Self Service Financial Aid) need to also be supported. In order to facilitate this flexibility a new web service has been delivered to support the Self Service Financial Aid process regardless of the user interface technology deployed at an institution.
The Financial Aid Web Service offers access to the Campus Solutions Financial Aid information through service operations.