Contents

Getting Started

This book has many sections. Here we will try to guide you to some sections to get you started quickly.

If you are on the latest PeopleTools releases and starting a new greenfield web service, you probably want to start with REST web services.

I would highly recommend that you download PostMan and find some PostMan tutorials on the web. This tool will make your life much better when working with web services.

New to Integration Broker

If you are brand new to integration broker and are looking to created web services in PeopleSoft to provide to external clients here are the sections you should read. Then dive into the other areas and examples.

Some Integration Broker Experience

If you have some integration broker experience and need some quick reference examples to start REST web services, I would focus on these examples first. Then dive into the other areas and examples.


Author Info
Chris Malek

Chris Malek is a PeopleTools® Technical Consultant with over two decades of experience working on PeopleSoft enterprise software projects. He is available for consulting engagements.

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