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UML 2.0 Infrastructure Adoption
Highlights OMG Meeting
Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) gathered last week in Orlando,
FL
at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation. OMG's Analysis and Design
Task Force voted to recommend adoption of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
2.0 Infrastructure, Object Constraint Language, and Diagram Interchange
Protocol, signaling that these specifications have taken their final form and
the foundation for this major upgrade of the language is firmly in place.
Ready now to meet the needs of major users and tool vendors, the revision
also
supports the rapidly-growing Model Driven Architecture (MDA) marketplace. The
scheduled adoption of revision 2.0 of the MetaObject Facility (MOF) and UML
Superstructure at the next OMG meeting will complete the picture, establishing
the necessary correlation between MOF and UML foundation at the lower levels
as the UML Superstructure builds on it at the top. MOF and UML combine to form
a complete modeling universe, supporting analysis and design on a family of
tools from multiple vendors interoperating via OMG's XML Metadata Exchange
(XMI) standard.
New Infrastructure and Industry-specific Standards Adoptions Task Forces
also
recommended a number of new distributed computing infrastructure
specifications including a data distribution framework for realtime systems;
an interoperability framework connecting the CORBA notification service with
the Java Messaging Service; and a foundation for modeling Super Distributed
Objects the numerous networked devices that are becoming ubiquitous around
businesses and homes. The Space Task Force recommended a standard
representation for telemetric and command data, and the Life Science Research
task force standardized a framework for chemical structure access and
representation.
New Standards Efforts Underway
Members of the Finance Domain Task Force will standardize a framework for
sensitive data management in distributed computing systems. Other new work
will define an ontology definition metamodel, and a UML profile for computer
systems engineering. Any company may join OMG and submit a draft specification
in response to the RFPs that set the requirements for these new standards; for
more information see www.omg.org.
Meeting Sponsor Presentation and Other Activities
Meeting sponsor Compuware Corporation presented a talk on "MDA Promise
and
Practice" by Wim Bast, Senior Software Architect. OMG members who develop
distributed applications using the MDA now meet as the MDA Users' Special
Interest Group, newly chartered in Orlando. Meeting tutorials covered OMG's
specification suite, CORBA, and modeling of enterprise collaboration. Vendors
from ten companies demonstrated their implementations of OMG technologies.
Next Meeting
OMG members will meet next in Paris, France during the week of June 2
through
6, 2003. Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation,
see
www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm.
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