Understanding Windchill+ DPT Architecture
The architecture integrating Windchill+ with Codebeamer includes:
• Windchill+ Server
• Windchill+ Client
• PTC Flow
• Codebeamer OSLC Server
This integration supports SSO authentication only.
Windchill+ and Codebeamer communicate with each other, as shown in the illustration below:
In the illustration above, the green line indicates a front-channel request from the client to the server, while the blue line indicates backend communication between servers.
Windchill+ uses PTC Flow as an OSLC client to communicate with Codebeamer OLSC server. The PTC Flow connection allows you to locate specific external resources of Codebeamer and create trace links between Windchill+ traceable objects and these external resources. For more details on trace links, see Working with Traces.
 | The Windchill+ client generates previews of Codebeamer OSLC servers by directly calling their preview URLs. |