13 Cold Hard Facts About the PeopleSoft Component Interface

PeopleSoft delivers a set of Component interfaces that are ready for you to use, for very common components such as JOB_DATA. If you’d like to see a list of Component Interfaces or Enterprise Integration Points (EIP’s) for HCM you can find them here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18171_01/EIPAPP91/hcm910/index.htm

The component interface is another PeopleTools object within Application Designer. Therefore, if you want to access one or view it, you’ll need to be familiar with Application Designer and PeopleTools.

Additionally, if you need to create a new Component Interface, they are created in Application Designer. Many developers view a Component Interface as a "black box" that encapsulate PeopleSoft data and business processes, and hide the details of the underlying page and data.

We'll get into how to create and modify a Component Interface in some of the next posts.  For now, let me give you some cold hard facts about the component Interface..

COMPONENT INTERFACE FACTS

1. Maps to one, and only one, PeopleSoft component.
2. You can create multiple component interfaces for the same component.
3. You create, view, and modify component interfaces in Application Designer.
4. Record fields on the component are mapped to the keys and properties of the component interface.
5. Methods are used to find, create, modify or delete data.
6. You can create your own Methods
7. You can access the Component Interface from non-PeopleSoft Applications
8. Pages in PeopleSoft are contained within Components
9. Component Interfaces are always based on a Component.
10. Components are what contains the business rules and data for a specific application
11. All Component Interfaces are based on a single component.
12. Components are only accessible through the PeopleSoft client
13. Component Interfaces are accessible to both internal and external applications.