Overview of components

This diagram shows an overview of the components involved in event publishing:

The client and the LN server communicate through a middleware infrastructure consisting of the network and additional technology such as a brokering solution. This infrastructure is enabled through the Infor Technology Architecture. This allows the client to send the PublishList and PublishChanges requests and to receive the resulting data or change events.

The PublishList is implemented in LN through a process that is started in the Business Object Layer.

For the PublishChanges in LN, the implementation is delegated to the Synchronization Server, which starts a process to detect events in the application data. The change events are detected through auditing. When transactions are executed by user sessions or other application processes, relevant changes are written to an audit trail. This is the only overhead on the end user. An offline process picks up the transaction data that is needed for the business object and in accordance with the specified selection and filter. An event message is created representing the event and its data and that message is published.

The PublishList automatically stops if the requested data set is processed. Regarding PublishChanges, the publishing of events is a continuous process, because new change events may always occur. It is stopped when the client sends an UnpublishChanges request.