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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
OMG TO STANDARDIZE ASSET ANALYSIS,
DISCOVERY, MANAGEMENT
Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) met in London from Nov. 17-21
at
a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corp, klocwork, Thales and AMS. The gathering
combined standards work, five information days and conferences, an educational
series of six tutorials and vendor software demonstrations.
Software Asset Discovery And Control Standards
By analyzing, categorizing and managing existing software assets, an
enterprise can prolong the usefulness of its existing software functionality
and maximize the return on its software investment. In London, OMG members
started work on two new standards in this area. First, a Special Interest
Group (SIG) working on architecture-driven modernization issued a Request for
Proposals (RFP) to standardize a fundamental model (in technical terms, a
metamodel) for analysis of existing software functionality.
In a separate effort, members issued a proposed Reusable Asset
Specification
Request for Comment. The RAS defines a standard way to package reusable
software assets. This is an important part of an Asset-based Development
process, promoting the reuse of software development assets across an
enterprise. For information, send e-mail to rasrfc@omg.org.
Infrastructure Standards Work
OMG members also issued RFPs initiating work on two new infrastructure
standards. Small-footprint devices such as cell phones and the next generation
of software-defined radios will benefit from a new standard model and set of
interfaces for global positional and navigational data. Large, scalable CORBA
systems will benefit from standard interfaces for load monitoring and
balancing. Any company may join OMG and respond to the RFPs for these new
standards; for information and deadlines send e-mail to info@omg.org.
Members finished evaluations and started final adoption votes for two new
standards: Lightweight versions of the CORBA naming, event and time services
will serve resource-constrained embedded systems, and a UML profile for
Quality of Service and fault tolerance will facilitate modeling of Real-time
and high-reliability environments.
Information Days, Workshops And FIPA Meeting
The C4I Domain Task Force hosted a Coalition Day featuring a keynote by
Peter
Verga, principal deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of
Homeland Defense. The Security SIG hosted an information day entitled
"Security by Design: Securing System-Oriented Architectures." OMG's Model
Integrated Computing Platform SIG hosted an information day on "Model
Integrated Computing for Embedded, Real-Time Systems."
Three outside organizations located workshops or meetings at the OMG venue:
EDA (Exhibitions) Ltd, in association with OMG and the Institution of
Electrical Engineers Professional Networks for Embedded and Real-Time Systems,
sponsored a one-day workshop on "Developing Distributed Embedded Systems for
Mission-Critical Applications"; The Component-Based Software Engineering
Network hosted a three-day workshop entitled "State of the Art and Future
Directions"; and the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents met alongside
OMG for three days.
Tutorials
Six half-day tutorials covered OMG's most popular specifications: Dr. Jon
Siegel of OMG presented a "Survey of OMG Specifications"; John Hogg of IBM
Software Group spoke on "Brass Bubbles: An Overview of UML 2.0 and Model
Driven Architecture (MDA)"; Cory Casanave, president of Data Access
Technologies, presented "Applying MDA to Enterprise and Government
Collaboration"; David Frankel, president of David Frankel Consulting, taught
"Using Model Driven Architecture to Manage Metadata"; William Henry, director
of professional services for IONA Technologies, presented "CORBA in the
Enterprise"; and Bill Beckwith, CEO of Objective Interface Systems, taught
"Real-time CORBA."
Sponsor Presentations And Software Demonstrations
Three meeting sponsors addressed the attendees: Wim Bast, senior software
architect for Compuware Corp, spoke on "The MDA Reference Model"; Djenana
Campara, CTO of klocwork Inc, spoke on "Architecture-Driven Modernization (or
how to get your teenage software to behave)"; and Robert C. Brown, director of
Business Innovation for AMS, spoke on "OMG and Air Traffic Management Systems:
CARDAMOM - a new generation of OMG standard middleware." Sixteen vendors
demonstrated their implementations of OMG specifications.
Board Endorses Three New Standards, Holds Election
Following member evaluation and endorsement, a vote by OMG's Board of
Directors makes a new standard official. During the meeting week, OMG's BoD
voted to create three new standards. Two extend the CORBA Component Model
(CCM): One defines a lightweight version for real-time and embedded component
applications; the other defines a UML profile for component modeling. A third
new standard allows developers to add their own network communications to
specially designed real-time object request brokers in a standard way.
OMG's board also elected five members to three-year terms. New to the board
is
Ben Calloni of Lockheed-Martin. Re-elected were Dale Fuller of Borland, Sean
Baker of IONA, Scott Markel of LION Bioscience and Bill Smith of Sun
Microsystems.
Next Meeting; Links To Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Anaheim, Calif., during the week of Feb. 2-6,
2004. Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation, see
www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm. 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
www.omg.org/technology/documents/specifications.htm.
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