OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Washington, D.C.
Meeting March 23-27 also featured SysML Information Days,
and co-located meetings of the BPM Consortium and SOA Consortium

Needham, MA, USA - April 21, 2009 - Members of the OMG™ met in Washington, D.C. during the week of March 23-27, 2009. At this meeting, nine specifications and two final reports finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees approved the issuance of one new request for proposal. Two new Special Interest Groups, Mathematical Formalism DSIG and the Emergency, Crisis and Major Event Management (ECMEM) DSIG, were chartered. This meeting was co-located with the SOA Consortium, the GCIO and the BPM Consortium.

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve the following specifications:

• Robotic Localization Service
• CORBA Binding for WSDL
• Ruby CORBA Language Mapping
• GIOP Compression
• DDS for Lightweight CCM
• UPMS
• Retrieve, Locate, Update Service (RLUS)
• UML Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM)
• Entity Identification Service (EIS)

Revisions or Finalizations of Specifications

• Smart Antenna FTF Report
• Ground Equipment Monitoring Svc 1.0 FTF report

Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption
In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the next meeting.

• Records Management Services Submission
• ALMAS FTF Report
• AMSM FTF Report
• PAGE-OM FTF Report
• Production Rules Representation (PRR) FTF Report
• Business Motivation Model (BMM) 1.1 RTF Report

Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation
OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization, government agency, or university to join and contribute to our specifications. The following RFP was issued in Washington, D.C. and is currently open to participation.

• Business Modeling: Value Delivery Metamodel (VDM) RFP

Non-members may download information on any Request process from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule. For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI) dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.

New Special Interest Groups
Two new Special Interest Groups, the Mathematical Formalism DSIG and the Emergency, Crisis and Major Event Management (ECMEM) DSIG, were chartered.

Meeting Sponsors
This meeting was sponsored by Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc.; PrismTech; SPARX Systems; Model Driven Solutions; Intel and Lombardi Software.

OMG's 20th Anniversary Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in San Jose, Costa Rica during the week of June 22-26, 2009 sponsored by Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc.; SPARX Systems; Model Driven Solutions; Intel and Lombardi Software; and Meeting Sponsors GMB, Microsoft and CINDE. This meeting will feature the OMG 20th Anniversary Celebration.

Members and non-members are invited to attend the Modeling Tutorials Track, to be presented in Spanish; the MDA, BPM and SOA: Pillars of Sustainability Information Days, which will have live Spanish translation; and the Architecture Driven Modernization case study workshop. The BPM Consortium, the SOA Consortium and the GCIO will also host co-located events during the meeting week.

Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.

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About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium that in 2009 is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.  OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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Edited by Stephanie