[lyo-dev] Using OSLC SDK to build new OSLC compliant REST application

[Vinod Kumar Choudhary <vinodkc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As the purpose of OSLC specifications is to enable integration between the
products and these specifications sets out the common features that OSLC
compliant applications are expected to support.
So when we make an existing tool OSLC compliant so that it can integrate
with another OSLC compliant tool, its resources representation need to be
consitent with RDF data model in addition to the
existing non-OSLC implementation (though the resource representation format
can be RDF, JSON etc).
Now the OSLC services are consumable by OSLC Clients and OSLC SDK help in
implementation of OSLC providers and consumers.
So this means (my understanding) OSLC SDK facilitate the implementation of
OSLC compliant REST services for existing application where we have to
provide additional implementation which is OSLC compliant
and the services are now consumable by OSLC compliant as well as
noncompliant clients.
Now the question is: Are there any guidelines to build a REST application
from scratch using OSLC SDK which supports OSLC compliant as well as
noncompliant clients?
Do we need to have separate implementations to cater these two scenarios or
we can have a common implementation which can serve both types of above
mentioned clients.

Regards,
Vinod
India Software Lab, IBM Software Group