Welcome to the OSLC Tools project

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (also known as OSLC or Open Services) is a community and set of specifications for Linked Lifecycle Data. The community’s goal is to help product and software delivery teams by making it easier to use lifecycle tools in combination. The OSLC community is creating open, public descriptions of resources and interfaces for sharing the things that teams rely on, like change requests, test cases, defects, requirements and user stories.

This web site is the home of oslc-tools the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) Tools project. The project was created by the OSLC Community (original proposal) to help those who are learning and implementing OSLC specifications as well as those who are developing the OSLC specifications themselves. The project will create reference implementations, test suites, example code and other content that supports the OSLC community.

Project Code is Open Source and licensed under the Apache Software License v2.0. Project governance is Apache-like as well (project guidelines) and anybody is welcome to participate. Interested? Please sign up for the mailing list and introduce yourself.

UPDATE JUNE 2, 2011: A proposal to establish the Eclipse Lyo project based on the OSLC Tools code has been posted to the Eclipse.org website here: Eclipse Lyo Proposal. Your questions and feedback are welcome here: Eclipse Proposals forum

Project Resources

SourceForge Project: Our project page on SourceForge.
Source Code: Subversion repository
Issue Tracking: MantisBT Bug Tracker
Mailing Lists: GNU Mailman managed Mailing lists
Project Wiki: For documentation and proposals.

Our Projects

RIO: The Reference Implementation for OSLC (RIO) is a Java-based OSLC reference implementation
Provider Tests: A suite of Java-based tests for testing OSLC specification compliance
OSLC Primer and Tutorial: Pair of documents that explain the concepts, features and benefits of OSLC, as well as the details of writing OSLC consumers and providers (coming soon)

OSLC Specifications

open-services.net - The OSLC web site is the starting point for exploring the specifications and for participating in the community.
Spec Work Group Mailing lists: OSLC community work groups work via mailing lists and periodic meetings via telephone.
Spec Development Wiki: Open Services specifications are developed in the open and available on the community wiki

Updated May 3, 2011