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Chris Malek

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

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PeopleSoft Simple Web Services (SWS)

Introducing a small but powerful PeopleSoft bolt-on that makes web services very easy. If you have a SQL statement, you can turn that into a web service in PeopleSoft in a few minutes.

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Recommended Tools

A random list of tools that I recommend.

  • Postman
    • The best HTTP testing tool I have found for most people new to web services. It is free and has a great UI and documentation.
    • I personally no longer use Postman. I use HTTPYac in Visual Studio Code. I find it easier to use and more powerful. However, it is not as easy to get started with.
  • Visual Studio Code
    • A great text editor with a huge list of plugins for editing and working with XML, JSON, encodings, etc.
    • I really like the HTTPYac extension. It can replace Postman in many situations. It has some pretty good documentation.
  • What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
    • If you have not worked with HTTP protocol much I highly recommend this short read. We will be documenting most HTTP calls in HTTP syntax in this book which is very concise.