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Contact:
Dana Morris
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 149
pr@omg.org
New OMG Specification Work to Integrate Robotics
Systems; Tailor UML
for Real-time and Embedded Computing
New CORBA, Life Sciences Specifications Start Final Votes as Members
Meet in Burlingame, California, January 31-February 4, 2005
Needham, MA, USA – February 17, 2005 – Members of the Object Management
Group™ (OMG™) chartered the Robotics Domain Special Interest Group during
the organization’s Technical Meeting two weeks ago in Burlingame, CA,
sponsored by Boeing (
www.boeing.com ). At the end of a day full of presentations and
demonstrations of robotics technology, which included iRobot’s PackBot™
moving up and down the aisles, major industry vendors from the United States
and Japan passed a motion creating the new group.
UML® Profile Brings MDA to Real-time, Embedded Computing
OMG members issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) defining requirements
and deadlines for three new standards. One will standardize a Unified
Modeling Language™ (UML) Profile tailoring the modeling language for
Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems Computing. This will bring the
full benefits of OMG’s Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) to this growing
field. Another will standardize Anonymous Networking, not only allowing the
sender of a network invocation to conceal his identity from the receiver,
but also concealing the origination point and endpoint from network
eavesdroppers who otherwise may be able to determine this by examining
packets for routing information, or analyzing network traffic. This
anonymization capability is required, primarily for security reasons, by
many industries including healthcare and homeland defense, and for
compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley act. Finally, the third RFP will define
an Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel that allows computer code in any language
to be represented in a single standard form.
Any interested company may join OMG and submit in response to these RFPs.
For additional information including deadlines, see
www.omg.org or send an email to
info@omg.org.
Boeing Presentation
Carl G. O’Berry, Boeing Vice President of Network Centric Architectures,
Integrated Defense Systems, spoke to a plenary session on “The Future of
Network Centric Operations”.
Specifications Pass Final Adoption Votes
Following votes by all OMG members, a vote of the Board of Directors
makes a new specification official. Immediately after the meeting, the Board
ratified new specifications adding reflection capability to CORBA®
invocations; defining a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism handling facility,
and finalizing the 2.0 release of UML. The definitive versions of these
specifications are now available from OMG’s website at
www.omg.org/specifications.
Tutorials, Information Days, and Software Demonstrations
During the meeting week, OMG members and staff presented four half-day
tutorials on the group’s various specifications. An information day focused
on upcoming standards work in Knowledge-Based Engineering, a foundation
technology for large-scale industrial activity, and the Healthcare Domain
Task Force (DTF) progressed cooperative work with domain standards group
HL7. Member companies demonstrated software products implementing OMG
specifications in a busy area shared with the co-located OSDL Enterprise
Linux Summit.
The Liaison Subcommittee announced that UML 1.4 had been adopted by ISO
as international standard ISO/IEC 19501 (2005).
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Athens, Greece, during the week of April
11-15, 2005, co-sponsored by Kennedy-Carter (
www.kc.com ) and Mentor
Graphics ( www.mentor.com
). Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation, see
http://www.omg.org/tcguest.
Members may register for the meeting at
www.omg.org/registration.
Further information may be found at
http://www.omg.org/athens. 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
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. 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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Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan, the
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member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization’s standards
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