Why Packages Are Needed

As applications, business functions, and other objects change, you need to make those changes available to users within your enterprise. You might also need to set up a new workstation with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software.

Packages enable you to deploy software changes and new applications to your users, or to install the software on a workstation for the first time. After you have defined and built a package, you can deploy it using Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Client Workstation Installation application or Deployment Director application (P9631).

You might need to update or set up a workstation or an enterprise, logic, or application server with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software for a variety of reasons, such as:

• You want to set up a workstation for a new user or role.

• You need to deploy custom solutions to all users or only to selected users.

• You have created a new path code for development purposes, and you need to deploy it.

• You need to rapidly deploy a software fix to a selected group of affected users.

• Disk space is getting low on some of the workstations, and you need to create a minimum configuration.

• You need to update the servers with custom modifications that you have developed using the toolset.

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne provides solutions to meet all of these needs. First, the system enables you to create a package that defines and contains the location of the components that need to be distributed. To deploy these components, you must define and build a package.