Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is an open community, originally proposed in 2008, to define a set of specifications that enable integration of software development. It has evolved, and continues to evolve, to areas such as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), IT Operations and more. The intention is to make life easier for tools users and tools vendors, by making it easier for tools to work together.
Organization
The OSLC initiative is divided up into various
OASIS
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, Eclipse Mylyn/Tasktop, and
IBM
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. Since then, new workgroups have formed around other lifecycle topics and individuals representing about 30 different organizations, including
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Siemens
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Northrop Grumman
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Tieto
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, and
General Motors
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. IBM's Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure brand is also starting to use OSLC as an integration technology.
Technologies
The OSLC specifications build on the W3C
Resource Description Framework
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(RDF),
Linked Data
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and
REST
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, enabling integration at data level via links between related resources. OSLC resources are defined in terms of RDF properties. Operations on resources are performed using
HTTP
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. OSLC also specifies user interface techniques to enable preview, creation and selection of links.
See also
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Application Lifecycle Management
Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management (governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software testing, ...
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Functional Mock-up Interface
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Linked Data
In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web ...
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Product lifecycle management
In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design, and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. ...
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REST
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of ...
References
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External links
* http://open-services.net – The OSLC homepage
* http://oasis-oslc.org – The OASIS OSLC Member Section homepage
Eclipse Lyo– Eclipse project to develop an OSLC SDK
OSLC4Net– A .NET SDK for OSLC
OSLC Primer– explains concepts of OSLC
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OSLC Tutorial– explains how to consume and provide OSLC services with much example code
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* https://jazz.net/open-services/ – Jazz.net page on OSLC
Software project management