Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is an open community, originally proposed in 2008,[1] 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.[2]
The OSLC initiative is divided up into various OASIS TC (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Technical Committees), as well as previously defined working groups and user groups. Each OASIS TC develops specifications in context of a specific part of the lifecycle.[3] For example, there are OASIS TCs for Change and Configuration Management, Automation and Project Management for Contracted Delivery (Supply Chain). There is also a Core TC, which defines a common specification that is extended by each lifecycle TC.
As of June 2013, the OSLC initiative is a Member Section of the Open Standard Organization OASIS.[4]
Open specificationsedit
OSLC is open in the sense that anybody can participate (e.g. in User Groups). To participate in the specification developing OASIS TCs, the participants have to sign the IPR policies to ensure irrevocability. The specifications are under Creative Commons licensing and can be freely implemented by anybody.[5] Supporting the OSLC initiative there are open source projects for building an OSLC reference implementation and test suites for various programming languages and framework. The Eclipse Lyo project is one of the open source project which provides consumer and provider SDKs (primarily for Java), reference implementations, samples and test suite.[6]
Statusedit
The effort was formalized in 2009 with the formation of the Change Management workgroup [7] and participation of individuals from Accenture, Eclipse Mylyn/Tasktop,[8] and IBM. Since then, new workgroups have formed around other lifecycle topics and individuals representing about 30 different organizations, including Oracle, Siemens, Northrop Grumman, Tieto, and General Motors. IBM's Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure brand is also starting to use OSLC as an integration technology.[9]
Technologiesedit
The OSLC specifications build on the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF), Linked Data and REST, 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. OSLC also specifies user interface techniques to enable preview, creation and selection of links.[10]
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open, services, lifecycle, collaboration, oslc, open, community, originally, proposed, 2008, define, specifications, that, enable, integration, software, development, evolved, continues, evolve, areas, such, application, lifecycle, management, product, lifecyc. Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration OSLC is an open community originally proposed in 2008 1 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 2 Contents 1 Organization 2 Open specifications 3 Status 4 Technologies 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksOrganization editThe OSLC initiative is divided up into various OASIS TC Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Technical Committees as well as previously defined working groups and user groups Each OASIS TC develops specifications in context of a specific part of the lifecycle 3 For example there are OASIS TCs for Change and Configuration Management Automation and Project Management for Contracted Delivery Supply Chain There is also a Core TC which defines a common specification that is extended by each lifecycle TC As of June 2013 the OSLC initiative is a Member Section of the Open Standard Organization OASIS 4 Open specifications editOSLC is open in the sense that anybody can participate e g in User Groups To participate in the specification developing OASIS TCs the participants have to sign the IPR policies to ensure irrevocability The specifications are under Creative Commons licensing and can be freely implemented by anybody 5 Supporting the OSLC initiative there are open source projects for building an OSLC reference implementation and test suites for various programming languages and framework The Eclipse Lyo project is one of the open source project which provides consumer and provider SDKs primarily for Java reference implementations samples and test suite 6 Status editThe effort was formalized in 2009 with the formation of the Change Management workgroup 7 and participation of individuals from Accenture Eclipse Mylyn Tasktop 8 and IBM Since then new workgroups have formed around other lifecycle topics and individuals representing about 30 different organizations including Oracle Siemens Northrop Grumman Tieto and General Motors IBM s Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure brand is also starting to use OSLC as an integration technology 9 Technologies editThe OSLC specifications build on the W3C Resource Description Framework RDF Linked Data and REST 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 OSLC also specifies user interface techniques to enable preview creation and selection of links 10 See also editApplication Lifecycle Management Functional Mock up Interface Linked Data Product lifecycle management RESTReferences edit IBM hails ALM standards participation Networkworld com 2009 08 25 Archived from the original on 2012 10 14 Retrieved 2013 07 18 Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Open services net Retrieved 2013 07 18 Specifications lt Main lt TWiki Open services net Retrieved 2014 06 09 About Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Retrieved 2015 08 27 Speicher Steve 2011 02 23 Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration and More The O in OSLC Stevespeicher blogspot com Retrieved 2013 07 18 Eclipse Lyo October 2013 IBM supports Open CM initiative in tools SD Times Software Development News SD Times Archived from the original on 2012 03 25 Retrieved 2013 07 18 OSLC Lifecycle Interoperability Makes Headway Dr Dobb s Drdobbs com 2009 08 26 Retrieved 2013 07 18 IBM Pulse 2011 The Tivoli with two minds Trip Report Cote s People Over Process Redmonk com 2011 03 07 Retrieved 2013 07 18 OslcCoreSpecification lt Main lt TWiki Open services net Retrieved 2013 07 18 External links edithttp 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 link broken OSLC Tutorial explains how to consume and provide OSLC services with much example code link broken https jazz net open services Jazz net page on OSLC Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration amp oldid 1067082350, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
