1.4 Driver Features
The driver contains many features designed to make it easy
to deploy in customer environments. These features include:
- A PeopleSoft Service Agent (PSA) that
provides sample integration components and objects using the best
practices of PeopleSoft integration.
- The PSA components support Subscriber channel Add
and Delete commands. This enables full bidirectional driver functionality.
- The PSA includes utilities for managing the transaction
record database. This allows easier archive, delete, reset, etc.
of transactions.
- The driver shim is written in Java. This allows
the driver to be deployed on any supported PeopleTools platform.
- The driver shim can be either a Local or Remote
Loader driver.
- The driver can handle queries using any Level-0
fields as search criteria.
- The driver uses a default “explicit” search
value criterion. The driver supports a “starts with” search
value matching option if the search value is contained within single
quotes (such as ‘P00000’).
- The driver can coexist with prior releases in PeopleTools
8.1x, 8.2x,
and 8.4x environments, so it provides
the benefit of parallel testing. After you have implemented this
version of the driver in production, you can delete all older objects
within PeopleSoft that are attached to previous versions of the
driver.
The driver delivers XSLT templates to facilitate upgrades
in 4.0.x driver deployments.
The architecture and driver configuration enable you to quickly
implement the driver into your testing environment. After you have
configured and tested the driver in your lab environment, you can
then customize the implementation to meet your business needs, work
with your application data, and then move it into production.
As is the case with any implementation, when the level of
complexity in your business processes increases, so does the amount
of time and effort required to implement your solution. For highly complex
implementations, you might need to obtain external consulting assistance.