2 Packaging Structure and Standards

This chapter describes the physical packaging structure of the Retail Functional Artifacts. There are two Functional Artifacts packages:

• RibFuncArtifact14.1.0ForAll14.1.0Apps_eng_ga.tar

• RetailFuncArtifact14.1.0ForAll14.1.0Apps_eng_ga.tar

The RibFuncArtifact contains additional artifacts specific to the RIB application, such as TAFR related artifacts. The RetailFuncArtifact contains only product independent artifacts. All content is versioned and follows the standards as described in Chapter 4, "Versioning Artifacts."

General Packaging Structure

The Retail Functional Artifacts are physically packaged as a directory structure. The following diagram illustrates the structure. Standard UNIX directory formatting is used within the rules associated with the physical packaging of the directory.

/retail/integration/base/                             bo/  (Business Objects)                            BO  (Object Name)                               v[1]  (Version - latest)                                 BO.xsd   (BO Schema)                            LocOfBO  (Object Name)                               v[1]  (Version - latest)                                 LocOfBO.xsd   (Localization hook to BO Schema)                  /custom/                        bo/  (Business Objects)                             ExtOf<BO>  (Object Name)                                v[1]  (Version - latest)                                  ExtOf<BO>.xsd   (Custom BO Schema)                             EOfBr<BO>  (Object Name)                                v[1]  (Version - latest)                                  EOfBr<BO>.xsd   (Custom Localization BO Schema)                             EOfIn<BO>  (Object Name)                                v[1]  (Version - latest)                                  EOfIn<BO>.xsd   (Custom Localization BO Schema)                  /localization/                        bo/  (Business Objects)                             Br<BO>  (Object Name)                                v[1]  (Version - latest)                                               Br<BO>.xsd  (Localization BO Schema)                             
                             In<BO>  (Object Name)                                v[1]  (Version - latest)                                  In<BO>.xsd   (Localization BO Schema)

Note: For a GA deliverable, the custom and localization directories are created and populated by default with customized and localized XSD for eleven business objects namely, FulfilOrdCustDesc, PayTermDesc, PayTermRef, ReportLocDesc, ReportLocRef, SupplierColDesc, SupplierColRef, SupplierDesc, SupplierRef, XItemDesc, and XStoreDesc. For remaining retail business objects, a new tool that is part of the Functional Artifact Generator called the Template Creator is provided to create the placeholder XSDs and the import hooks in the base objects. See the Oracle Retail Functional Artifact Generator Guide for more information.