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.
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Delegated resource creation dialog
Delegated resource selection dialog
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