In the last call, we were asked to give our thoughts on the concepts other than the automation plan, results and notifications. c.f. http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/ResourceDefinitions
Here are my thoughts, based on my experience with RTC Build and Build Forge (basically copied from my original comments in the spreadsheet, with some elaboration): Automation Server: A server that maintains the available automation plans and results. Presumably this is the same server as the one you're issuing OSLC Automation requests to, though I suppose it's possible that the OSLC API could be implemented by a fronting server. Automation Engine: A process that coordinates the execution of an automation plan to produce a result, by delegating to one or more agents. An automation server supports one or more automation engines. Automation Agent: A process running on a particular 'worker' machine that executes a particular result or part thereof. For example, Build Forge allows different steps of a build to run on different agents (possibly in parallel). It should be understood that these are all just OSLC resources describing the underlying processes / servers. For example, it's not expected that asking for info about an automation agent actually contacts the machine on which that agent is running, it just returns the info known about that agent, as maintained by the automation server. Nick Edgar RTC Build component lead
