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kendalls
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10/9/2008 4:44 PM
    We are going to be connecting to an external WEB HR package where we will need to integrate HR data via web services.  For example, we will need to send hire, transfer and fte changes to Lawson HR suite.  We are just starting to investigate whether using Process flow Integrator will give us better control and quicker development time than building our own customized solution? Any thoughts/recommendations?

    We do not currenty have Process Flow Integrator, so this is an additional cost that we would need to consider.
    John Henley
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    10/9/2008 9:15 PM
      ProcessFlow Integrator does not have the capability to integrate via a web service for inbound interfaces. Inbound "real-time" interfaces via ProcessFlow Integrator are a struggle, as the only real "listeners" that come with ProcessFlow are the ScanFileClient and the MQ client (if you use IBM MQSeries messaging). The other "clients" are all "passive", in that you would need some way to trigger/kick them off.

      There is an "undocumented feature" (at least as far as I can tell, it's not documented), which is to create a flow/service, and use /bpm/xml/trigger.do to create a workunit (this is how PSA submits to PF for time/expense approval) and pass the variables to attach to the workunit.

      If you're on LSF9 9.0.1 there are some Java trigger classes as well.
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      John
      John Henley
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      12/3/2008 7:33 PM
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        David Miller
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        7/29/2010 5:29 PM
          Has his cnaged at all since you last talked about it a couple years ago?

          I am looking at making an SOAP interface between IBM Maximo Asset Mgmt and Lawson S3 Financials 9.0.0.7. Needed Maximo to serve up the data (OUTBOUND) to S3 (INBOUND) by way of SOA.

          Maximo is an SOA app based on being a J2EE with Java Business Objects looking to integrate with Lawson handing over JE information as easily as possible with little to no code written. Maximo has a front end mechanism to deploy web services and create the WSDL and such to communicate to other systems that requires no code. But looks like this would not be trivial on Lawson side?

          Thanks for any information you can provide...

          Miller
          David Miller
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          7/29/2010 5:30 PM

            Posted By David Miller on 07/29/2010 01:29 PM
            Has his changed at all since you last talked about it a couple years ago?

            I am looking at making an SOAP interface between IBM Maximo Asset Mgmt and Lawson S3 Financials 9.0.0.7. Needed Maximo to serve up the data (OUTBOUND) to S3 (INBOUND) by way of SOA.

            Maximo is an SOA app based on being a J2EE with Java Business Objects looking to integrate with Lawson handing over JE information as easily as possible with little to no code written. Maximo has a front end mechanism to deploy web services and create the WSDL and such to communicate to other systems that requires no code. But looks like this would not be trivial on Lawson side?

            Thanks for any information you can provide...

            Miller