Upcoming ELM User Group Presentation

I’m really excited to announce I will presenting at the upcoming IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management User Group Virtual Conference. During the session will be taking customers and partners thru the OSLC based API discovery process, including creating the ETM Test Plan. I will be taking questions and showing demos, so… Continue reading

A Beatles’ Retrospective

I’ve been taking some much needed time off, having not been able to take some of my corporate vacation last year. During this time, I am watching the Beatle’s Get Back documentary directed by Peter Jackson. I’ve always liked their music, and have enjoyed watching the back room machinations of… Continue reading

Getting a resource shape

Now that we have a basic understanding of the RootServices document, and how to access protected APIs.  Let’s go thru the process of discovery, in order to identify what is needed for OSLC APIs. I’ll be covering the basics behind the OSLC Resource Shape. Understanding resource shapes is key for… Continue reading

API Authentication Method in ELM – OIDC

In my last post I took you thru the OAuth 1.0a API flow.  While there are three APIs defined in the RootServices document which enable you to execute the flow, it is still a lot of work to ultimately get your OAuth 1.0a Token for usage.  This token is only… Continue reading

API Authentication Method in ELM – Oauth 1.0a

The goal of the next two posts is to provide you with methods for authentication of your APIs.  I will not be going thru all the methods that a ELM server support authentication, but at a high level your server can either be setup to use application level authentication or… Continue reading

API types and the API Landing Page

When someone mentions APIs what do you think of?  Let’s look at the acronym and the discuss how I will be using it over the course or this blog series.  API stands for “Application Programming Interface”.  This term is pretty broad as it is a connection between computers, programs and… Continue reading