The following illustrates the basic components of a genOSLC integration.

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Authoring Tool

The authoring tool (in green above), may be implemented in any technology. The following are general requirements of the Authoring tool Architecture.

• The Authoring Tool has a web interface with which the Authoring Tool Integration may communicate (Native API above).

• The Authoring Tool is capable of hosting the genOSLC plugin. In a web application the genOSLC plugin is hosted in an HTML iframe element. In programmatic clients, like Eclipse, this is often achieved with an embedded browser.

• The Authoring Tool Native UI is capable of communicating with the genOSLC Plugin. This is normally done with JavaScript postMessage in the browser.

genOSLC

genOSLC consists of two components:

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