Chapter 8. Extending RTC

	Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance.
	--Jon Franklin

Rational Team Concert is a collaborative environment that integrates work items, source control, process, planning, and builds. It enables developers, architects, product owners, management, and other stakeholders to build highly customizable and configurable software. All this is made possible by building Rational Team Concert on top of the Jazz technology platform.

Jazz is an infrastructure platform built on the principles of openness and extensibility. The central idea of the Jazz infrastructure is to provide a set of common software development lifecycle services that any tool could implement or extend. The service implementation is based on the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), which is an industry initiative to enable interoperability of tools and resources across vendors. Organizations typically use tools from multiple vendors to capture and manage the data across various...