OMG Technology Tutorials

OMG Technical Meeting - Washington, DC USA

Monday, Tuesday & Thursday, March 10,11 & 13, 2008

Tutorial Schedule & Descriptions

Monday, March 10, 2008

0900 - 1200 Introduction to OMG's Modeling and Middleware Specifications
Dr. Jon Siegel, Vice President-Technology Transfer, OMG

OMG is the source of the computing industry's modeling specifications; our MetaObject Facility (MOF) and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) establish the foundation needed to integrate modeling with the downstream development steps - coding, deployment, and maintenance. Following an explanation of how these foundation specifications bridge the gap from modeling to implementation, the tutorial covers UML basics - class diagrams, components, and several key behavioral diagrams, plus advances in UML 2.0. This foundation enables the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), presented in the next segment. The final portion of the tutorial surveys CORBA middleware, the Object Management Architecture, and OMG standards work in the vertical domains.

1300 - 1700 Tutorial 2 TBA

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

0900-1200 UML Profile for DODAF/MODAF (UPDM) Tutorial
Robert Lario, Principal, Visumpoint LLC

This tutorial will cover key aspects of the UPDM specification including an overview of the core products and their relationships. The tutorial will show how to express DoDAF and MoDAF elements and organize them in a set of specified viewpoints and views that support the specific needs of stakeholders in the US Department of Defense and the UK Ministry of Defense.

1300-1500      Experience Report: The Application of Patterns to Capture Best Practice in Architecting,
                     Designing & Implementing Real-time, Data-centric, Distributed Systems
                     Angelo Corsaro, Product Marketing Manager, PrismTech

Real-time data-centric systems have traditionally been deployed in mil/aero applications such as Combat Management and Air Traffic Control. From these environments the OMG's Data Distribution Standard (DDS) for Real-time Systems evolved and there are now multiple COTS implementations available. The last few years have seen interest in DDS-compliant middleware expand well beyond its heritage markets into application domains such as high-performance industrial SCADA, automated financial trading and telecoms network management.

However, due to the relatively young age of this RT data-centric technology, the best practices used by experts to architect and design these high-performance, deterministic, and scaleable applications have for the most part escaped being captured and shared with the user community. e.g. under some well-known pattern forms such as the GoF or the POSA.
This tutorial captures these best practices and dispenses them in the form of architectural and design patterns, readily accessible and applicable for reuse. These patterns have been captured through the extensive practical experience acquired by PrismTech's own experts.

The tutorial is targeted at senior technical personnel involved in architecting, designing or implementing mission-critical or business-critical distributed systems in mil/aero, industrial, financial or telecom application domains.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

0900-1200 Model Driven Service Oriented Architecture
Ed Seidewitz, VP of Model Driven Architecture Services, Model Driven Solutions

Serious promoters of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) often claim that it is more than just another term for Web Services. Instead, SOA should provide a complete paradigm for linking business drivers to enterprise solutions to technical implementation, through the unifying concept of "service". In this way, implemented technical services, Web or otherwise, directly support the provision of the business services that are ultimately of value to the enterprise.

But how does one do this?

Fortunately, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) provides a way. It may be a mouthful as a buzz-phrase, but Model Driven Service Oriented Architecture harnesses the power of modeling to the driving paradigm of services. This tutorial presents an example of Model Driven SOA, based on an ongoing Financial Management Enterprise Architecture project at the US General Services Administration (GSA). The example starts with a CIM-level business architecture, proceeds through a PIM-level solution architecture to a PSM-level technical architecture. The modeling will be done in UML, using the emerging UML Profile for Services, with Web Services and an Enterprise Service Bus as target technologies.