Overview

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is an open community that defines specifications which support the integration of software systems. The main objective of OSLC is to enable development of software systems that can be easily integrated with other software systems. Using OSLC allows companies to effectively integrate disparate tool chains and enable end-to-end processes that cover the entire product development lifecycle. For more information on OSLC, click https://open-services.net.

Principles of OSLC:

• OSLC Specifications focus on the interaction between systems, not the behavior of the systems themselves.
• OSLC integrations are loosely coupled - data is linked and not replicated.
• OSLC uses the notion of upstream and downstream systems and data.
• Data is modeled as resources which can be identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
• OSLC Links are defined as “a URI reference from one resource to another resource.
• OSLC systems may provide delegated web user interfaces that can be used by other systems.