Understanding PeopleSoft Business Process Weaver

PeopleSoft Business Process Weaver (BPW) provides a framework that allows processes (tasks), such as batch programs, to be defined and executed either in parallel or in sequence as part of a business process. You can create the User-Defined type of BPW business process (using the Business Process Definition page) that is executed within PeopleSoft BPW.

In addition, you can use Application Data Set (ADS) definitions to migrate the Business Process Definitions, Task Registry, Business Process Run Controls, and Business Process Weaver Application Class registry between databases—and ultimately to your production environments. For more information, see Using the Data Migration Workbench for PeopleSoft Business Process Weaver.

Prerequisites

Before using PeopleSoft Business Process Weaver, set up your system with the following:

• Integration Broker: Used to pass the process notification to the process so that status can be updated and successor steps can be triggered. In order for this to work, Integration Broker must be set up and Gateway, domain, and nodes are configured and activated. You must add local-to-local routing for service operation PRCS_STATUS_OPER and make sure its queue PSRF_REPORTING_FOLDERS is running. For more information, see also configuration and integration setup in the product documentation, PeopleTools: Integration Broker Administration.

• PeopleTools 8.54: Required specifically for push notifications (see Setting Up and Using Business Process Notifications) and ADS configuration (see Using the Data Migration Workbench for PeopleSoft Business Process Weaver), whereas the main functionality of Business Process Weaver notifications and ADS requires PeopleTools 8.53.

• PeopleTools 8.58.07: Required specifically for using Oracle JET libraries to create BPW business processes.