Groups - Jotne PLCS Web Services (EDMplcsServices Interface Documentation v1.1829.pdf) uploaded

[Tim.Turner@jotne.com]

Due to popular request, Jotne hereby publishes the web services for PLCS
that have been developed over the last few years.

Regards,
Tim Turner

 -- Mr. Timothy Turner

The document named Jotne PLCS Web Services (EDMplcsServices Interface
Documentation v1.1829.pdf) has been submitted by Mr. Timothy Turner to the
OASIS Product Life Cycle Support (PLCS) TC document repository.

Document Description:
This draft document represents possible set of web services for use with
PLCS that may be considered by the OASIS PLCS TC. A brief overview of these
have been provided at various events and last at the PLCS Implementers
Workshop in Reading, UK in November 2010. All comments are gratefully
received.

This open PDF file documents a set of web services that have been developed
by Jotne for use on a number of PLCS projects such as the NOLITO project
which was documented on DEXLIB, and others that include the OPDIM and
TruPLM projects, (but were not documented on DEXLIB). 

The services are defined at the product lifecycle management level and as
such extend the functionality of PLCS required for implementations. These
business-level services are functionally grouped covering data content such
as; Product Management, Breakdown Management, Document Management, File
Management, Activity Management, Task Management, and Baseline Management. 
User management, Search facilities and other General services are also
provided along with those for system Access Control and Archival services.


Each of these groups are broken down into a set of messages (e.g.
storeBreakdown, deleteBreakdown, getBreakdowns etc.). Each message has a
description of the service and a structure which holds the information.
Both the descriptions and the structures are provided using the Web Service
Description Language (WSDL). Some prefer to provide the structure
definition into a separate schema (.xsd file) which may have some benefit
if these are subject to frequent change. However, Jotne has found that
having all the information in a single WSDL file makes life a little easier
for the implementer and less files to manage. 

The structures (or definition) for these services are themselves modeled in
EXPRESS-G and documented as EXPRESS entities visible from the content
management page. These are also included as part of the documentation
provided. These structures are mapped to the OASIS PLCS templates so that
the implementer / service user does not need to understand the undlerying
PLCS AP239 schema iteslf. 

The services for reference data are re-used from the BuildingSmart domain
that uses the International Framework for Dictionaries (IFD) that was
standadized under ISO 12006-3:2007) and has been in use for several years
and numerous projects. This is essentially an EXPRESS representation of
reference data which can be populated from the PLCS OWL files.

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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=40657

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