Re: [sdd] [glossary] Artifact

[Randy George <randyg@us.ibm.com>]

James,
  The one comment that I have is with the statement:
 "Smallest referenceable unit".  Some artifacts are
a collection of multiple files, e.g. a MSI artifact.  In this case,
a "file" is the smallest referenceable unit wrt to data transfer,
etc.

Regards,
Randy George

Senior Technical Staff Member
Provisioning Architecture
Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group
Austin, TX  
(512) 838-0752     T/L 678-0752

James Falkner <james.falkner@sun.com>

01/06/2006 10:18 AM

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Subject	[sdd] [glossary] Artifact

Here is my re-write of the definition of Artifact.
 I lost my edits
I had made during the Dec 21 meeting so this is from memory and from
notes taken during the meeting.

Artifact:
Smallest referenceable unit.  Artifacts are defined as part of an
SDD.  An artifact
can be referenced within the defining SDD or outside of the defining SDD.
 An
artifact consists of one or more files or other pieces of metadata that
aid in the
execution of lifecycle operations on one or more target environments.  The
contents of an Artifact are opaque (not referenceable) to all elements
outside
of the Artifact definition.