Focal Point® as an OSLC service consumer and service provider

Integrating : Focal Point® as an OSLC service consumer and service provider

Focal Point^® as an OSLC service consumer and service provider

Focal Point^® supports OSLC Change Management (OSLC-CM) and OSLC Requirement Management (OSLC-RM) specification, enabling integrations with other OSLC service provider and consumer applications.

Focal Point^® as an OSLC service consumer

You can register Focal Point^® as an OSLC consumer with any of the OSLC service provider application and enable data exchange between the applications. The following capabilities are supported by integrating Focal Point^® with an OSLC provider application:

▪ create artifacts in the OSLC provider application from Focal Point^®

▪ publish artifacts in bulk, with a single click instead of repeating the same operation for every artifact, from Focal Point^® to OSLC provider application and establish bidirectional links

▪ link to artifacts in OSLC provider application from Focal Point^®

▪ view linked artifact details by using rich hover and by clicking through to open

▪ exchange attribute values between Focal Point^® and OSLC provider application artifacts.

To integrate Focal Point^® with an OSLC provider application

1 Register Focal Point^® as an OSLC consumer in the OSLC provider application: see Registering Focal Point^® as an inbound consumer in a CLM application.

2 Add OSLC provider applications as an outbound friend in Focal Point^®: see Connecting to the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management application server.

Focal Point^® as an OSLC service provider

Focal Point^® version 6.6 and later has enhanced OSLC support for Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications and other OSLC consumer applications. As an OSLC Service Provider, Focal Point^® provides delegated resource creation dialogs to create Focal Point^® artifacts from OSLC consumer applications, and delegated resource selection dialogs to select Focal Point^® artifacts from OSLC consumer applications.

As an OSLC provider, Focal Point^® has these features:

▪ delegated resource creation dialog for OSLC consumer applications to create Focal Point^® artifacts, and link to the new artifacts

▪ delegated resource selection dialog for OSLC consumer applications to select, link, and access the Focal Point^® artifacts

▪ rich hover text to preview the Focal Point^® linked artifacts from the OSLC consumer applications.

To integrate Focal Point^® with an OSLC consumer application

1 Register Focal Point^® as an OSLC provider in the OSLC consumer application: see Registering Focal Point^® as an outbound friend in a CLM application.

2 Register the consumer application as an inbound consumer in Focal Point^®: see Configuring consumer authentication for a CLM application in Focal Point^®.

For an overview of integrating Focal Point^® and other OSLC applications, see Focal Point^® and the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management.

For configuring project area associations in a Rational solution for CLM application to link to the Focal Point^® artifact using delegated dialogs, see Configuring project area associations.