Application Engine - Part 2 - Debugging

In this article we will discuss Debugging Application Engine with an example. This part of the Application Engine article is in continuation for Part-I in the series of Application Engine articles  posted on my blog. The example has been created and tested in Peoplesoft environment with DEMO database. In this example, we will use the Application Engine AJ_AE_SAMPLE that we developed in Part-I. There are two iterations as there are 2 journals to be copied. The major steps involved will be 1) Make configuration setup for Application Engine Debugging. 2) Start Application Engine in Debug mode. 3) STEP INTO until we reach a specified action. 4) View the value in a column of STATE record at that stage. 5) Modify the value of a column in the STATE record. 6) If it is not the last iteration of the loop, go to step 3. 7) STEP OVER until Application Engine completes. To run an Application Engine program in debug mode, Start PeopleSoft Configuration Manager, Select Profile, Default, Edit and sel