Application Engine programs are PeopleSoft's batch processing technology. They are developed using in application designer and consist of blocks of PeopleCode and SQL. Application engine programs can also use application classes, compoonent interfaces, XML publisher reports, and call SQRs and COBOLs through PeopleCode.
Program Structure
Application engine programs are have very structured hierarchy (loosely based on COBOL). They consist of a single application (application engine program) that can consist of one or more sections. Each section can contain one or more steps, and each step can contain one or more actions. The actions in a step can include:
SQL actions
Do actions
PeopleCode actions
Call Section actions
Log Message actions
Program Properties
There are number of properties associated with an application engine program. These include:
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