You can integrate data in lifecycle applications, such
as change management, quality management, and design management, with
requirements data in Rational® DOORS® and Rational DOORS Web
Access. Integration is implemented using Open Services for Lifecycle
Collaboration (OSLC) data sharing. After the configuration is complete,
you can create traceability relationships between your requirements
and other lifecycle application artifacts.
You can create links in Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web
Access to new and existing artifacts in integrated projects. When
you create a link to an artifact, a link is created from the artifact
in the lifecycle application back to the requirement. The users in
those applications can also create objects in modules and link to
those objects. You can use links to navigate to linked artifacts or
hover the mouse over a link to view live information about the artifacts.
You do not need to perform any data synchronization.
The linking and exchange of data across applications is enabled
by the implementation of Open Services for
Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) specifications, which standardize
the way that lifecycle tools work together. Rational DOORS supports the OSLC data
sharing specification as a provider for the Requirements Management
domain and as a consumer of other lifecycle domains.
To enable Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web
Access to integrate with other products, you must install and configure
the components listed here.
- Rational License Key
Server
- Rational DOORS database server
- Rational DOORS client
- Rational DOORS Web Access
For information about the Rational License
Key Server, see Rational Common
Licensing information.
Regarding the use of licenses:
- A license is not required to start and run the Rational DOORS Web
Access server.
- A license is required if a user logs in to Rational DOORS Web
Access through the client.
- A license is required if another tool implements code directly
against the OSLC RM domain to use it as a server API.
- A license is required to run a Service Discovery operation, which
configures Rational DOORS as an OSLC friend by using
an OSLC server API command.
- A license is not required to display Rational DOORS data
from an integrated product by using UI previews (compact rendering,
rich hover) or a delegated UI for selecting requirements.
- Node-locked licenses are not supported on the Rational DOORS Web
Access server.
See the following topics for information about installing the Rational DOORS and Rational DOORS Web Access components.
Attention: Even if you plan to only use the Rational DOORS client
for the integrations, you must still install and configure the Rational DOORS Web Access components.