Monday, May 5, 2014

PeopleSoft Application Server

What is the PeopleSoft Application server?

The Application server is the portion of the Peoplesoft pure internet architecture which is used to handle the business logic and bulk of the workload of the PeopleSoft system.

What is the technology of the Application Server?

Oracle Tuxedo is used to process transaction requests. Oracle Jolt interfaces Java and makes the tuxedo technology to extend to web based environments.
The server processes can be configured for unique purpose, some processes can be used to handle the browser data, while others can be used for Integration broker requests.

How to make use of the Application Server?

The web server will have a configuration.properties file which contains information about the application server to which it needs to connect. The IP address and Jolt Port of the application server is mentioned in that file, now the requests will get directed to the application server which has been configured.

The application server can have multiple domains each one containing multiple server processes running. The request from the webserver will get forwarded to the application server which has the appropriate Jolt port as mentioned in the configuration.properties file. Each application server domain will have an appropriate psappsrv.cfg file which will be created when the domain is deployed. The psappsrv.cfg file contains all the domain information, including the JSL port and the database connectivity details.

How to handle the application server?

The application server is handled using the psadmin utility, which is created as part of the people tools installation. The psadmin utility helps in creating, configuring,deleting and maintaining the application server domains.

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