Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for efficiently building and deploying binary artifacts. During operation, the system retrieves a first package containing a binary artifact from the repository. Next, the system uses metadata for the binary artifact to identify additional binary artifacts that include the dependencies. The system then retrieves, based on a local availability of the additional binary artifacts, the additional binary artifacts according to a procedure for expediting retrieval of the additional binary artifacts from files that are external to the first package. Finally, the system deploys the binary artifact and the dependencies from the second package into an environment.

Abstract: A mobile application runs on a mobile device to allow jewels, jewelry, and their arrangements to be found or virtually made so as to facilitate inspecting, querying, or ordering. Users navigate through various user interface screens to discover jewels and jewelry in inventory of a jewelry merchant. For those jewels and jewelry of interest, they can be collected on a virtual jewel pad. Using the jewel pad, users may arrange jewels and jewelry and order their creation. The mobile application acts as a point of sale for the purchase of jewels, jewelry, or arrangements.