PeopleCode Language Structure

This subject assumes that you are familiar with a programming language, such as C, Visual Basic, or Java.

In its fundamentals, PeopleCode syntax resembles other programming languages. Some aspects of the PeopleCode language, however, are specifically related to the PeopleTools environment. Definition name references, for example, enable you to refer to PeopleTools definitions, such as record definitions or pages, without using hard-coded string literals. Other language features, such as PeopleCode data types and metastrings, reflect the close interaction of PeopleTools and SQL. Dot notation, classes, and methods in PeopleCode are similar to other object-oriented languages, like Java.