PeopleSoft Internet Architecture

The PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (PIA) is a server-centric component architecture that enables secure end user access to the PeopleSoft applications. Its components include the following:

• Internet Access Device
• Web Server
• Application Server
• Database Server

PeopleSoft Internet Architecture is really an architecture without a client. There are no PeopleSoft executables on the client. Thus, the client can be any internet device that uses standard internet technologies such as HTTP, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and XML to communicate with the PeopleSoft Internet Application Server.

A web browser running on a PC is the most common internet client. The PeopleSoft Internet Application Server simply serves HTML and JavaScript to the web browser and the end user navigates through the PeopleSoft application just like navigating any other website.