SYSPRO Services

• Load the Administrative Tools menu of the Windows Control Panel and select the Services application.

  This displays information about all services on your computer, including SYSPRO-specific services.

• During the installation of SYSPRO services, you can choose the destination folder.

  By default, 64-bit services are installed to: C:\Program Files\SYSPRO\{Name-of-service}\.

Business objects are portions of SYSPRO business logic that can be called programmatically from outside of SYSPRO, passed instructions in XML, and return the results in XML (updating the database, if required).

They are COM-based components that allow third party developers to access the rich functionality of the SYSPRO core product. Each third party application typically uses a number of e.net Business Objects that are licensed at functional area level. Functional areas are merely a grouping of Business Objects.

Component Object Model, or COM, is a Microsoft standard used for applications to communicate with one another.

SYSPRO's Connected Services consist of multiple capabilities that provide integration touch points between SYSPRO and external parties.

Existing Connected Services include:

• e.net Solutions

• SYSPRO Ken the BOT (available from SYSPRO 8 2018 R2)

• SYSPRO Supply Chain Portal (available from SYSPRO 8 2019 R2)

• Tax Connector - Avalara (available from SYSPRO 8 2021 R1)

• Tax Connector - Vertex (available from SYSPRO 8 2021 R1)

• Data Connector - OData (available from SYSPRO 8 2021 R2)

Distributed Component Object Model, or DCOM, is a set of components that assist in the communication between a client and server.

The endpoint is a device or node that is connected to the local area network or wide area network and accepts communications back and forth across the network.

Representation State Transfer (REST) provides a structured and accessible way of accessing a service. It does not consume as much bandwidth as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and is more suitable for use over the Internet.

It uses a simple URL (instead of XML) to obtain information in a form that's easy to parse within the language you need for your application.

Rules consist of conditions and actions.

A condition is evaluated and (if true) the SYSPRO Rules Engine initiates the defined actions.

Actions are executed when the conditions of a rule are met.

Conditions act as triggers that initiate a specific action according to how they have been configured.

They let you fine-tune a rule with the records to be excluded and when certain actions must be performed (i.e. they act as a set of conditional expressions that must be met before any rule actions are performed).

A rule target indicates the database table to which a rule applies, as well as the operation on that table (e.g. All, Insert, Update or Delete).

Targets can be set as company-specific or system-wide.

Variables are used to define or manipulate any values required in the conditions or actions of a rule. The different property packets of a variable include the following:

SYSPRO has commercial arrangements with several Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). The products that ISVs develop require integration into SYSPRO, often using e.net Solutions to call e.net business objects.

Run Time Product licenses are issued for this purpose as they allow third-party products to connect seamlessly to e.net Solutions at a SYSPRO site (if they've selected to license the Run Time Product) without any further e.net licensing implications.

While the Run Time Product license doesn't require any additional configuration or assignment of licenses at the site, the SYSPRO site must have licensed the underlying required module.

Run Time Products were typically allowed open access to any e.net functional area. However, from SYSPRO 8 2021 R1 onwards, it's possible to have two types of Run Time Product access:

• Standard

  This means that all functional areas are accessible to the Run Time product.

• Managed

  This means that a limited number of functional areas are accessible by the Run Time Products.

  In this case, the Run Time Products definition file lists the e.net functional areas required and the license generated and applied at the SYSPRO site ensures that only these functional areas are licensed.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a method of calling a service if you are using managed code. It has a strong support for data types. It requires writing or using a provided server program (to serve data) and a client program (to request data).

It is an XML-based messaging protocol that allows programs which are running on different operating systems to communicate using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). It defines a standard set of rules for structuring messages that can be used for simple one-way messaging.

The synchronous method calls the service and waits for a response before allowing execution to continue.

The asynchronous method can initially call a service method and then continue executing other tasks while the service processes the method. When the method completes, a call back event on the client is fired and the client application can then proceed with processing the output result.

Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is one of the core protocols used to enable communication between computers on a network.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a technology that forms part of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It provides a set of APIs (Application Programming Interface) for building connected, service-oriented applications. It was designed using SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) principles to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers.

A web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet and uses a standardized XML messaging system. XML is used to encode all communications to a web service (e.g. a client invokes a web service by sending an XML message, then waits for a corresponding XML response).