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Object Management Group
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OMG Defines New Standard for Reusable Software Assets
Product Lifecycle Management, Software-Defined Radio Specifications
Take Final Form as Group Meets in St Louis, MO, April 26-30, 2004
Needham, MA, USA - May 5, 2004 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
today announces that members adopted a new standard for Reusable Software
Assets during the organization's Technical Meeting last week in St. Louis,
MO, USA, sponsored by the Boeing Corporation (
www.boeing.com ), Express
Scripts ( www.expressscripts.com ), and Object Computing Inc (
www.ociweb.com ).
In addition, standards for Product Lifecycle Management and
Software-Defined Radio began a final series of votes in the OMG adoption
process.
Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) Among Others Become Official
Following member evaluation and endorsement, a vote by OMG's Board of
Directors makes a new standard official. In St. Louis, the Board ratified
adoption of three new standards including the Reusable Asset Specification
which defines XML schemas that package reusable software assets for
exchange among applications via XMI, Web Services, and other protocols.
Defined using OMG's Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), this exchange
enables Asset-Based Development, a process that encourages the reuse of
software development assets in all process workflows.
The two other newly-adopted standards include a set of Life Sciences
Identifiers which standardizes access to common concepts in biotechnology,
and a UML Profile for Quality of Service and Fault Tolerance which
supports the MDA in distributed real-time and high-assurance computing.
These and all of OMG's other specifications may be downloaded without
charge at http://www.omg.org/specifications.
New Standards in Product Lifecycle Management, Software-Defined
Radio
OMG members completed their evaluation of draft specifications for Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and started
the final series of votes that will adopt them as official OMG
specifications.
The PLM specification defines the standard model in the Unified Modeling
Language™ (UML™) that brings strategic portions of the STEP and
EXPRESS manufacturing standards into OMG's MDA. Following the MDA, this
model defines interfaces that enable PLM applications to interoperate
using Web Services Definition Language (WSDL), XML, and XMI®.
The SDR specification defines UML Platform-Independent Models for
Software Radio Infrastructure and Waveform Applications. These models
standardize the basic architecture of software radios for both military
and civilian applications.
New Technology Adoptions Initiated
OMG members issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) soliciting drafts for one
new domain standard and two new infrastructure standards. A new
specification in Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) will bring the
discipline into the MDA and enable interoperability of engineering
information among conformant KBE tools. One infrastructure RFP solicits
proposals for a mapping from WSDL to C++; the other, a standard
transformation from MetaObject Facility (MOF) models to text. Any
interested company may join OMG and submit in response to these RFPs. For
additional information including deadlines, see
www.omg.org r send an
email to info@omg.org.
Tutorials, Information Day, Sponsor Presentations, and Software
Demonstrations
During the meeting week, OMG presented six half-day tutorials on its
various specifications. A group of banks and financial institutions
defined a roadmap that will ultimately standardize a universal gateway for
electronic payments, and issued a Request for Information about the topic.
Any interested company, OMG member or not, may respond. For information,
see http://www.omg.org/payments-rfi. A day-long session including
representatives from MedicAlert, ExpressScripts, and three
healthcare-domain standards organizations explored support for
Interoperability in Healthcare. A half-day information session covered
Model-Integrated Computing for mobile and embedded systems.
Malcolm Spence, Director of Business Development for meeting sponsor
Object Computing, Inc. spoke to the members on "Open Source CORBA - a
Strategic Advantage", and Dave Sharp, Chief Architect for Boeing's
Future Combat Systems, spoke on "Boeing, Future Combat Systems, and
the OMG". Six member companies demonstrated their implementations of
OMG specifications.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Orlando, FL, USA, during the week of June
21-25, 2004. Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an
invitation, see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. OMG's home page is
www.omg.org.
Information about the MDA is collected at www.omg.org/mda. All OMG
specifications may be downloaded free of charge from
http://www.omg.org/specifications.
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About The OMG
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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. 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.
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in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan,
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