PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA)

Application Server
Services
Portal Processor User Interface Generator App Messaging Processor Bus Interlink Processor Component Processor Process scheduler Query Processor Application Engine

RDBMS Server
RDBMS Instance
Application Data Tables Application Meta data Portal Registry

Web Server
Web Browser
HTTP/HTML JOLT

Java Servlets
Portal Servlet Presentation Relay Servlet

External System

HTTP/XML

T U X E D O

S Q L

SQL

Batch Processes
Process Scheduler Server

Wireless (TBD)

HTTP/WML

Integration Relay Servlet

Security Manager

LDAP

Enterprise Directory

Technical Architecture

PIA PC Hardware Overview

Memory
Minimum 128 Mb RAM Developers should have at least 256Mb

CPU Speed
200 MHz

Supported Browsers for 8.4

Netscape Navigator 6.2X Microsoft Internet Explorer 5-6

PIA Architecture
Used to deploy and execute the pure internet applications of PeopleSoft 8.4 Consists of 4 tiers
Browser Web Server PeopleSoft Application Server Database server

PIA Architecture
Web Server
Communicates using HTTP/HTTPS to browser PeopleSoft PIA servlets
HTTP/HTTPS
WEB SERVER

BROWSER

PIA Architecture
PIA Servlets
No application logic in servlets Primary purpose is to talk to the application server PeopleSoft servlets
Page end user connection to PeopleSoft application Portal gathers content from multiple sources Report users interface to batch reports Application Messaging Gateway transmits pub/sub (xml) messages between message nodes XML Link transmits XML, used for Business Interlinks

PIA Architecture
PeopleSoft Application Server
Contains all application logic/HTML generation Built around domains Advertise a set of services (i.e. build a page, save a page, etc) Heart of PIA architecture Jolt/Tuxedo interface to web server

PIA Architecture
PeopleSoft Application Server
HTTP/HTTPS Jolt

BROWSER

WEB SERVER

APPLICATION SERVER

PIA Architecture
Database Server
Application server talks to DB server using SQL

HTTP/HTTPS

Jolt

SQL

BROWSER

WEB SERVER

APPLICATION SERVER

DATABASE SERVER

PIA Architecture
Process Scheduler Server
Process scheduler server talks to the DB server PIA pages to administer it, schedule processes, etc.
HTTP Jolt
PROCESS SCHEDULER SERVER

SQL
BROWSER

Database Server

WEB SERVER

APPLICATION SERVER

PIA Architecture
PeopleSoft Application Designer (IDE)
Runs in windows only environment IDE talks to DB
SQL
PeopleSoft Application Designer

Tuxedo
Database Server

BROWSER

WEB SERVER

APPLICATION SERVER