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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 22, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 38
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
OMG Hosts Another Successful
Technical Meeting Week
Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) met in Boston from Sept. 8
through 12 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation. Highlights include
the charter of the Legacy Transformation Platform Special Interest Group as
well as ongoing standards work, four topical information days, and vendor
software demonstrations with OMG's co-located Integrate 2003 Conference.
Legacy Transformation Working Group And New Business Rule Standards
OMG members chartered the Legacy Transformation Platform Special Interest
Group which will standardize aspects of the transformation of legacy
applications from their native platforms into the Model Driven Architecture
(MDA) and, from there, to modern platforms. Standard transformation tools will
preserve and extend an enterprise's return on its software investment. OMG's
Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force kicked off work on a new
standard metamodel and XML-schema description for business rules.
Information Days And Software Demonstrations
Four information days covered Financial Services, Embedded Systems, Space
software and OMG's Software Process Engineering Metamodel. Wim Bast, senior
software architect for meeting sponsor Compuware Corporation, spoke on
"Modeling Transformations with XMOF." Thirty-three vendors demonstrated their
implementations of OMG specifications in an exhibit area common to Integrate
2003 and the OMG standards meeting.
New Standards Extend CORBA Component Model
Three new standards completed member evaluation and started the series of
votes leading to adoption as OMG specifications. Two extend the CORBA
Component Model (CCM): a lightweight version of the CCM, suitable for use in
embedded systems, and a UML profile for the CCM which will facilitate its use
in OMG's MDA. The third new standard allows specialized object request
brokers, such as those designed for realtime systems, to use
application-defined network transports.
Board Endorses Seven New Standards
Following member evaluation and endorsement, a vote by OMG's Board of
Directors makes a new standard official. This week, OMG's BoD voted to create
seven new standards. Four extend OMG's suite of modeling standards including
the UML 2.0 Superstructure, which completes the UML 2.0 specification, and the
UML Profile for Testing. The MetaObject Facility (MOF) 2.0 Core and MOF 2.0
XMI Mapping bring this important foundation specification into alignment with
the just-upgraded UML 2.0. In the infrastructure arena, one new specification
maps the CORBA GIOP protocol to Telecommunications' SCTP, and another maps Web
Services Specification Language (WSDL-SOAP) to CORBA. The last new adoption
standardizes deployment and configuration of CORBA components.
Next Meeting
OMG members will meet next in London during the week of Nov. 17-21.
Interested
non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation, see
www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm.
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