Maximo® Integration Framework supports the sharing of lifecycle data between applications based on Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) integration. With OSLC integration, a consumer application can perform create, request, update, and delete operations on the data resources that a provider application makes available for integration through an OSLC service provider.
An OSLC provider application makes containers of associated data resources available for integration through service providers. Consumer applications then use these service providers to query resources and to create, update, and delete resource data. The following figure shows the typical interactions in an OSLC integration. The consumer application sends a query to the service provider for resource data. The service provider provides a link to the resource data in response. The consumer application uses the link to create, update, or delete resource data.
