A Appendix: About Deployments

This chapter explains how deployments are created and tracked by Oracle Retail Xstore Office and applied by Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service and Oracle Retail Xenvironment.To allow corporate users to easily maintain store systems, Oracle Retail Xstore Office provides the ability to deploy changes directly to retail locations or sets of retail locations. A deployment consists of a file, or set of files, and information dictating how and when it will be processed. Deployments may include Dataloader download files, configuration jar files, debit bin files, encryption cipher files, or update jar files. See Glossary for additional details about these types of files.In this appendix, the file, or files, that will be deployed are referred to as deployment files. In addition to these deployment files, a deployment includes information that allows for precise distribution to the desired target group. This information includes the locations within the hierarchy that will receive the deployment, the date upon which they will be notified of its availability, when they should begin to download it, and when they should apply it