Adapter services enable the PeopleSoft Adapter to perform operations on PeopleSoft systems through the use of PeopleSoft component interfaces. You configure adapter services using adapter service templates, which are provided with the PeopleSoft Adapter. Each template represents a CI operation. For example, the Get service template enables you to configure an adapter service that uses the CI Get method to retrieve user-specified data from a PeopleSoft system. Adapter service templates contain all of the code that is necessary to perform an operation on a PeopleSoft system, but without the PeopleSoft CI data specifications. You provide these specifications when you configure an adapter service.

Configuring a new service from an adapter service template is straightforward. UsingDesigner, you assign a default adapter connection to the service, select the adapter service template, and supply the service's data specifications.

After you configure a service, you can incorporate it into a flow or Java service to interact with a PeopleSoft component interface. For example, you can create a flow service that collects employee information from another backend system and then call an Insert adapter service within the flow service to insert the employee information into your PeopleSoft system.

You can configure adapter services for PeopleSoft-supplied component interfaces or for custom component interfaces. Before configuring services for custom component interfaces, you must build the APIs for those component interfaces using PeopleSoft's Application Designer. See Setting Up Your Adapter's Environment for details.

The PeopleSoft Adapter provides adapter service templates for the following adapter services: