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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
OMG CHARTERS NEW SUBGROUPS, ELECTS
ARCHITECTURE BOARD MEMBERS
Members of the Object Management Group met in Anaheim, Calif., during the
week
of Feb. 2-5 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corpt.
New Financial Payment Gateways Standardization Effort
A number of OMG members, including major banking and financial
institutions,
formed a working group to standardize models of interoperability and
interfaces between payment and business systems. Bridging the gaps that
separate systems with different protocols, the new standards will spread the
adoption of electronic payments into all areas of banking and finance. Any
interested company is welcome to join OMG and work on these new standards; for
information e-mail info@omg.org.
New Subgroup Charters
Reflecting the group's expanding range of interests, OMG members chartered
four new subgroups in Anaheim. The new Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM)
Platform Task Force (PTF) will standardize modernization of existing
applications by specifying a knowledge-discovery metamodel, models for source
and target platforms, and transformations between these models. The Open
Collaboration Services Initiative Special Interest Group will work on
standards for intra- and inter-enterprise collaboration based on OMG's Model
Driven Architecture. The Information and Security Assurance Platform SIG will
coordinate security architectures in current and future specifications.
Finally, the Software Based Communications Domain Task Force (DTF) will
standardize the architecture of software-defined radios used in military,
telecommunications and other areas.
Architecture Board Election
Elected by the members, OMG's prestigious Architecture Board reviews each
new
standard before it is adopted to ensure that it conforms to the organization's
architecture and is consistent with the group's existing standards. In
Anaheim, Carol Burt of 2AB; Manfred Koethe of 88Solutions; Robert Kukura of
Raytheon; Jishnu Mukerji of Hewlett-Packard; and Thomas Rutt of Fujitsu were
elected to two-year terms.
New Infrastructure Standards
OMG issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) stating the requirements and
schedules for three new standards efforts. Two were initiated by the
Real-Time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems PTF: A standard for power
conservation will be based on OMG's Model Driven Architecture, defining a
platform-independent model of a power-conserving system. The RFP requires the
standard to also include a set of conforming interfaces for CORBA-based
systems; interfaces for additional systems may be included as well. A
high-assurance Object Request Broker standard will cover use of CORBA with
certifiable high-assurance realtime operating systems. The third RFP, from the
telecommunications industry, will standardize a MOF-compliant metamodel and
UML 2.0 profile for modeling interactive dialogues in voice-based
applications. These will enable developers to specify dialogues independently
of the hardware and software that they run on, preserving their utility as
platforms advance in this rapidly-changing field. Any company may join OMG and
submit to these RFPs; for information, send e-mail to info@omg.org.
New Standards Votes
Members finished evaluations and started final adoption votes for two new
standards: One standardizes a set of identifiers for quantities used in Life
Science Research, facilitating interoperability among applications in
biotechnology at multiple levels. The other standardizes a binding of the
MetaObject Facility to OMG Interface Definition Language (IDL), defining a
CORBA-based repository for MOF-based UML models.
Tutorials, Information Day, Sponsor Presentation And Software
Demonstrations
On Feb. 5, an Information Day on Model-Integrated Computing for Embedded
Real-Time Systems included five presentations. Wim Bast and Bruce Epstein of
Meeting Sponsor Compuware Corporation spoke in plenary on "MDA and OptimalJ."
OMG presented a tutorial "Survey of OMG Specifications." Eight member
companies demonstrated their implementations of the group's
specifications.
OMG Board Endorses New Standard
Following member evaluation and endorsement, a vote by OMG's Board of
Directors makes a new standard official. Following work at the Anaheim
meeting, the Board ratified adoption of a set of lightweight services -
Naming/Directory, Events and Time - suitable for resource-constrained
embedded CORBA systems.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in St. Louis, Mo., during the week of April
26-30.
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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