PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Create customization environment

In previous posts I described to steps to install and configure all components to run Mobile Inventory. Common in the PeopleSoft world is to right away start customizing the application the moment it is 'out of the box'. Oracle has made this also possible for Mobile Inventory, by delivering the source files for Mobile Inventory.

In this post I will describe what is needed to create an customization environment for Mobile Inventory.

PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Test the application

Now that we have fully finished the installation and all configuration, we can start using Mobile Inventory. The installation manual also describes a chapter on setting up WS- Security. Since I am running on a sandbox, I won't setup WS-Security. If you wish to deploy Mobile Inventory in production, you should definitely setup and configure WS-Security.

PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Deploying Mobile Inventory Application

As said, the Mobile Inventory is build using ADF Mobile. In order to use the Mobile Inventory Application, we need to deploy the application ear delivered by PeopleSoft to Application Developer running within Weblogic Server. Enterprise Manager is used to deploy the Application.

PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Setup PeopleSoft Integration Broker & Activating Inventory services

PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory retrieves and writes data to PeopleSoft FSCM using webservices. In order to call the FSCM webservices from PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory, the PeopleSoft Integration Broker must be setup and the webservices used by PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory must be actived. Furthermore permissions must be granted to users to be able to access the webservices.

PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Applying the authentication provider

The PeopleSoft Authentication Provider authenticates a user name and password by connecting to a PeopleSoft Application Server. With successful authentication, the system creates a Principal and Subject, identifying the authorized use of a secure web server session. The system can use this subject to run a secure web session and provide WS-Security parameters for subsequent calls to the PeopleSoft system. So, users will log in with their PeopleSoft account to Mobile Inventory. No need to install and setup a separate Identity Management provider.

PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Installing Weblogic Server &Application Development Runtime

As described in the previous post PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory is build on ADF Mobile pages. In order to run these pages you need to install Application Development Runtime, which runs as an extention of Weblogic Server. To be able to install Weblogic Server, first you have to install a JDK. I have downloaded and installed JDK 1.6.0_31. I will not describe the installation steps of JDK.

I will install all software needed on a Windows 2008R2 64bit Server.

Installing PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory: Where to start

In a previous post I wrote about the availability of PeopleSoft 9.1 Mobile Inventory as part of PeopleSoft Financials Supply Chain Management.  The FSCM Mobile Inventory Management application provides tools to integrate mobile devices to the PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management system. Oracle ADF Mobile is used along with the PeopleSoft Integration Broker and PeopleSoft (Component Interface) Web Services.

PeopleSoft CIs are PeopleTools components that enable exposure of a PeopleSoft component for synchronous access from another application and act as a web service in the PeopleTools Integration Broker. The system then publishes web services through the PeopleSoft Integration Broker to pass transaction data between PeopleSoft  applications and additional component (third-party) applications. Mobile pages build with Oracle ADF Mobile access these CI services to retrieve data from PeopleSoft FSCM Inventory and send transactions to add and update data in PeopleSoft FSCM Inventory.

This post will describe all prerequisites and software needed to run Mobile Inventory.