Glossary

airside locations

Retail locations inside the secured area of the airport.

configuration jar file

A Java jar file containing a set of Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service configuration files.

dataloader download file

A file containing data in delimited text format, which will be loaded into database tables using the DataLoader application.

debit bin file

A text file containing a set of range and format data for accepted debit cards.

deployment manifest

An XML document containing details for a deployment. These details include the location of the deployed file, a type distinction for the file, and instructions to indicate when the file should be downloaded and when it should be applied.

encryption cipher file

An encryption key file.

landscape

Defines the registers used within a store and specifies the register numbers and functions.

personality

A grouping of at least one or many Profile Group and Profile Element combinations in an ordered list that work together to define a store.

profile

A target group for configurations. A profile may either be the Master profile, which represents the default set of configurations for all store systems, or a Profile Group/Profile element combination that includes configurations for a specific group of store systems.

profile element

The child property associated with the Profile Group; for example, Location= Ohio, California, Iowa, and so on.

profile group

A collection of configuration elements by type; for example Location, Register Type, Store Type, and so on.

store personality

A personality/landscape pairing to define a store; used to create the configuration paths specified in configPath.properties.

target group

The location, or set of locations, that will receive a deployment.

update jar file

An executable application update.

Oracle Retail Xenvironment lead register

The Oracle Retail Xenvironment lead register system controls the store closing process and is responsible for querying Xcenter (a part of Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service) for new deployments, downloading deployments and distributing them to other registers in the store, and for sending feedback pertaining to the status of deployments to Xcenter.

Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service primary register

The Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service lead register system is used to open and close the retail location.

Xcenter (a part of Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service)

The Xcenter application (a part of Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service) is a Java and XML/SOAPbased messaging framework that runs on the Jetty application server, available to Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service for reading and writing of data. Xcenter provides Xcenter data access through Jetty. The Xcenter server interfaces to Xcenter (Home Office server) and to the point-of-sale client module (Store).

The Xcenter Database is a central data repository containing consolidated data from specified database tables in every store.