DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / MAY 19, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 20    ( Table of Contents )

Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:

OMG's Workshop On UML For Applications Announcement

www.omg.org/news/meetings/uml2003/index.htm

WHERE: Burlingame, CA

WHEN: June 23-26, 2003

The Object Management Group(OMG) announces the program for its fourth annual Workshop on UML for Enterprise Applications taking place in Burlingame, CA from June 23-26, 2003. With the pending completion of adoption of UML 2.0, UML continues to emerge as the industry standard of choice for modeling enterprise software systems in domains ranging from finance and manufacturing to health and telecommunications. Use of the language is also experiencing rapid growth among systems engineers, who are using it to model large, complex systems, such as aircraft and automobiles. UML's success is the inspiration behind the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA), an initiative employing UML for specifying and potentially generating model-driven architecture throughout the software and system lifecycles from requirements capture all the way through to long-term maintenance.

Riding on these exciting developments, the UML for Enterprise Applications Workshop is packed with interesting tutorials, discussion groups and presentations. The following is a summary of highlights from the official program:

• 2 days of comprehensive tutorials on UML and MDA
• Panel discussion on UML 2.0: Why should I care? And What should I do?
• Legacy Systems Integration with MDA: An MDA Success Story
• Building an Executable UML Virtual Machine
• Integrating Open Source Tools into the MDA Paradigm
• Metamodel Integration

The workshop is open to all with an interest in UML modeling solutions that apply to some combination of model-driven architecture, distributed applications, meta-modeling, metadata and interchange and interoperability standards.

To register: www.omg.org/registration/registration-uml2003.htm For information: www.omg.org/news/meetings/uml2003/index.htm

Demonstration space is available. Contact Kevin Loughry at loughry@omg.org or visit www.omg.org/news/meetings/uml2003/demoinfo.htm for more information.

About The OMG

The Object Management Group (OMG) is an international, open membership, not- for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain its standards following a mature, open process.

OMG's standards implement the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), maximizing ROI through a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration that covers multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's standards include: UML (Unified Modeling Language ); CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture); CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel); and industry-specific standards for dozens of vertical markets.