Use case
When Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) is being implemented for the first time, one of the first questions asked by an organization is how can they bootstrap hundreds of existing Assets in a clean, organized, and exploitable way. There is little point in implementing OER, if hundreds (or even thousands) of Assets have to be manually entered into the tool. An even worse case scenario occurs when Assets are automatically loaded (harvested) but uncategorized, meaning that it is impossible to make sense of the information. That said, OER relies heavily on the Harvester and the Solution Packs to perform such tasks.
Tip
Bootstrap or bootstrapping is referred to as the process of Harvesting Assets into OER for the very first time.
As described in Chapter 3, Introduction To Oracle Enterprise Repository, Harvesting is the process of gathering information from different design-time and runtime sources, and loading these into OER. Harvesters are tools that enable the OER to discover and register...
