Understanding EIPs

Integration Broker is a middleware technology that facilitates synchronous and asynchronous messaging among internal systems and trading partners, while managing web services structure, web services format, and transport disparities. Using a publish and subscribe protocol, dynamic data external to PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management is published by the application, such as PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM), to be picked up by other PeopleSoft applications such as PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management, the subscriber to the changes in data. PeopleSoft Integration Broker provides integration that is close to real time, which means that the publisher need not be connected to the subscriber when publishing data. This is similar to the way that email works.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Integration Broker.

Every organization depends on real-world business objects, such as assignments in PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management or invoices in PeopleSoft Receivables, to conduct its business. In PeopleSoft applications, components represent real-world business objects. For example, an invoice component is a way to capture, store, and display all the essential information related to any given invoice—the general billing and shipping information, plus details about each line item. While online, a user can view, enter, and manipulate data about a business object through the use of a component and its associated pages.

Components have keys that enable navigation to a specific instance of a business object, and also include the essential information that describes the object (the fields in the component). Additionally, a component includes an organization's business rules associated with whatever type of business object the component represents.

The PeopleSoft Component Interfaces integration tool exposes the rich functionality delivered in the hundreds of components that make up PeopleSoft applications. A component is a transaction that implements a business process or function. A component interface provides real-time synchronous access to the PeopleSoft business rules and data associated with a business component. A component interface is a PeopleTools object created in PeopleSoft Application Designer. It exposes a PeopleSoft component for synchronous access from another application.

PeopleSoft Pay/Bill Management primarily uses the component interfaces technology within the framework of the order, assignment, and employee pages.

See the product documentation for PeopleTools: PeopleSoft Component Interfaces.