The Deployment Template scripts include functionality that allows deployments to integrate with Oracle Endeca Workbench. Integration involves three functions: configuration management, process control, and reporting.
- Configuration management. Oracle Endeca Workbench is
primarily a tool that allows business users to maintain a subset of
application configuration files. Scripts that integrate with Oracle Endeca
Workbench need to retrieve configuration files from the Workbench
configuration store and manage the process of merging those
configuration files with ones created and maintained by developers
in Developer Studio. In addition, scripts may need to upload
configuration into the Workbench, to ensure that the tool is up to
date with the configuration being used in the production
environment.
- Process control. Oracle Endeca Workbench requires an
Oracle Endeca instance in order to apply and preview changes to the
configuration files maintained in the tool. Scripts that integrate
with the Workbench must define and maintain an MDEX Engine that the
Workbench will use to preview changes before they are applied to
the production environment.
- Reporting. Oracle Endeca Workbench provides a
convenient interface for viewing reports produced by the Report
Generator. Scripts that generate reports need to deliver files to a
location from which Oracle Endeca Workbench will load reports in order for
users to view them.
