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Contact:
Nancy Lenehan
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org
UML 2.0 Superstructure and Other Key Votes to
Take Place at OMG Technical Meeting in Paris
June 2-6, 2003
Needham, MA, USA - April 29, 2003 - Members of the Object Management
Group™ (OMG™) will meet in Paris, France the week of June 2 through 6,
2003, at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation ( www.compuware.com
),
THALES ( www.thalesgroup.com
), and Sun Microsystems ( www.sun.com
). At the
meeting, OMG's Analysis and Design Platform Task Force will vote to
recommend an upgrade of the MetaObject Facility™ (MOF™) core and XMI®
mapping specifications to Version 2.0, and will evaluate draft
specifications for a MOF 2.0 Facility and Object Lifecycle service. The
task force will also recommend adoption of the Unified Modeling Language™
(UML®) 2.0 Superstructure specification, completing the upgrade of the
widely used and universally recognized modeling language to Version 2.0.
Augmenting the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), members will evaluate
a proposed UML profile for the CORBA® Component Model.
In Paris, a group of OMG members will also start work on a new standard
for model-based legacy transformation based on UML and MDA. Transformation
of legacy systems preserves their functionality when the technology they
were built on becomes obsolete. The transformation product will have a
lifetime of decades rather than years, maximizing ROI. Following a day of
presentations and discussion, members will draft the requirements document
for the new standard. Companies working in the legacy systems area are
welcome to join OMG and participate; for information contact OMG.
New Infrastructure Specifications
OMG's Middleware and Related Services Platform Task Force standardizes the
infrastructure for distributed computing, frequently working with other
task forces specializing in Telecommunications, Real-time, Embedded, and
Specialized Systems. In Paris, these groups are scheduled to vote on a
number of new standards. Two of these map the J-Consortium and JCP
Real-time Java specifications to Real-time CORBA; additional Real-time
standards define an extensible network transport framework and a
lightweight component model. A mapping of the CORBA GIOP protocol to SCTP
will serve the telecommunications industry, and an update of the SECP
protocol to version 1.1 will enhance CORBA security. A mapping of WSDL/SOAP
to CORBA will complement the interoperability provided by the CORBA to
WSDL/SOAP mapping, and a final new standard will specify deployment and
configuration of CORBA components.
Work on two new component specifications will start in Paris: One will
define stream-based component communication pathways, serving not only
telecommunications but also medical, industrial, military, and a variety
of similar systems. The other new specification will allow components to
provide the response-time and other quality-of-service guarantees
necessary to serve in distributed real-time networks.
New Domain Specifications
OMG's Domain Task Forces adopt specifications for enterprise architecture
and in vertical markets. In Paris, the Business Enterprise Integration DTF
will complete work on a specification for software portfolio management
and initiate an effort standardizing business semantics of business rules,
and the Life Science Research DTF will start work on a standard
representation for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, a key concept in
disease and drug effectiveness research.
CORBA in Action on June 4, 2003
CORBA in Action is a one-day seminar that will focus on CORBA applications
today, and the ROI benefits for companies that deploy them. Following a
keynote by OMG Chairman and CEO Dr. Richard Soley, presentations will
cover the CORBA and CORBA Component architectures, and detail case studies
of recent implementations. All are welcome to attend. For information, see
www.omg.org/corba_in_action.htm.
Tutorials and Product Demonstrations
OMG staff and members will present a number of tutorials during the
meeting week, covering OMG's Model Driven Architecture and other
specifications. For details, see www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm
.
A technology demonstration area will feature demonstrations of OMG-compliant
products from many vendors.
Links to Meeting Information
This meeting description is based on preliminary information. OMG Task
Forces will finalize their agendas for the meeting during the week of May
19th and post them at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm.
OMG's home page is www.omg.org.
The meeting schedule, and links to
agendas and registration for members appear at www.omg.org/registration/registration.htm,
and for guests at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm
. Information
about the MDA is collected at www.omg.org/mda.
All OMG specifications may
be downloaded free of charge from www.omg.org/technology/documents/specifications.htm.
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About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports
a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI,
the key to successful IT. Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA),
OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages,
middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development
environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the
Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).
CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard
open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.
OMG's well-established CORBAservices and industry-specific standards are
being re-issued under the MDA in many popular middleware environments. OMG
domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including
healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen
other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S.
government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing
representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany.
The Object Management Group is an international, open membership,
not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member
companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards
following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be
downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org;
the site also provides additional information about OMG and its
activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed
on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at info@omg.org,
by phone at +1-781-444 0404, or by fax at +1-781-444 0320. The OMG
provides current information and services for distributed enterprise
computing through The Information Brokerage® service on the World Wide
Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org.
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