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
In my prior posts I took you through the discovery flow to identify the resource shape of creating a new Project Area. The only problem was, there is no public API for creating a Project Area, either via OSLC or published ELM APIs. To that end, you may have been… Continue reading
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
Now that we’ve covered some of the basics on what we mean when we say APIs (link to prior post), it’s time to get into the power of ELM thru its API discovery process. Many of the APIs on a server are exposed thru API calls. The foundation of this… Continue reading
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
“With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”. I remember first hearing this phrase in Spider Man comics. But it has a much longer history than that. Wikipedia indicates that this is actually an ancient phrase going back to the first century BC. I find that IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management’s (IBM ELM’s) … Continue reading