Extending DOORS Next by using OSLC services
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is a community that is standardizing the way that lifecycle tools work together. IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® Next (DOORS Next) supports the OSLC data sharing specification as a provider for the Requirements Management (RM) domain and as a consumer of other domains in the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM). Data sharing is also supported by other RM tools that support OSLC integration, such as IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS).
The sharing of OSLC data between domains is based on a common set of resources, formats, and REST architectural services.
- Linking that is based on HTTP protocol
- Identification of resources by URIs
- Information retrieval that uses industry standard media types
DOORS Next supports OSLC data sharing with the domains and specifications that are listed in the following table.
| OSLC domain | RM consumes | RM provides |
|---|---|---|
| Change Management (CM) | V1, V2 | None |
| Quality Management (QM) | V1, V2 | None |
| Requirements Management (RM) | V1, V2 | V1, V2 |
| Configuration Management | None | See Oasis Working Draft |