Financial Payment Gateway Interoperability Workshop Highlights Upcoming OMG Meeting, February 2-6, 2004, Anaheim, CA, USA.

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NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2004

Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will meet in Anaheim, CA, USA from February 2-6, 2004 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation (www.compuware.com) to advance the organization's standards work and attend information days, workshops, and tutorials. A summary of the planned meeting follows.

Financial Payment Gateway Interoperability Workshop

A workshop on Model Driven Financial Payment Gateways on February 4-5 will feature presentations by VISA International, FSTC, Unisys, Data Access Corporation, and OMG, and will conclude with a with a hands-on session in order to draft a roadmap for a set of payment gateway interoperability standards to be adopted at OMG. Anyone interested in distributed payment standardization is welcome to attend; for information see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/special_events.htm.

Business Process Modeling and Business Rules Standards Work

Several coordinated efforts will advance Business Process Modeling and Business Rules standardization. OMG's Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force (DTF) and Business Rules Domain Special Interest Group will evaluate proposed new standards for a metamodel for Business Process Definition, a metamodel and exchange format for business rules including their vocabularies and terms, and a platform-independent model for Business Process Run-time Interfaces. The Business Process Modeling Initiative (BPMI; www.bpmi.org) board of directors will meet on Friday, February 6.

Modeling Standards Work

OMG's Analysis and Design Platform Task Force (PTF) will evaluate proposals for two parts of the revised MetaObject Facility(TM) (MOF(TM)) 2.0 specification. The first defines a modeling infrastructure for Queries, Views, and Transformations; the other maps the new MOF model to OMG Interface Definition Language (IDL). Working with the Systems Engineering Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG), they will also evaluate a proposed standard for a Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)) profile for Systems Engineering.

New Computing Infrastructure Standards

The Middleware and Related Services (MARS) Platform Task Force (PTF) will evaluate a proposed standard establishing Quality of Service levels for CORBA(R) Components, allowing these components to be used in real-time systems. The Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems (RTESS) PTF will evaluate proposed new standards for High Performance Enablers for CORBA; Reliable Ordered Multicast; and a Real-time Notification Service. They will also vote to recommend two technologies that were reviewed at the previous meeting: a set of Lightweight Services; and a UML Profile for Modeling QoS and Fault Tolerance.

New Domain Standards

The Life Sciences Research DTF will evaluate proposed new standards for a set of Life Sciences Identifiers including a naming schema; a Gene Expression Query Service, a representation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms; and standard representation and interfaces to 2-D Chemical Structures. The Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems (ManTIS) DTF will evaluate a new revised submission to the Product Lifecycle Management Services RFP. Finally, the Telecommunications DTF and Software Radio DSIG will evaluate a revised proposal for a standard PIM and PSM for Software Defined Radio Components.

OMG Tutorials and Information Sessions

On Monday afternoon, February 2, OMG will present a tutorial "Survey of OMG Specifications." On Tuesday morning, the MARS PTF will present a panel discussion on "The Conflicted State of CORBA" featuring senior developers from four major ORB vendors. On Wednesday, the Model-Integrated Computing (MIC) PSIG will host an information session on MIC for realtime and embedded systems, and meeting sponsor Compuware Corporation will give a special presentation. Also on Wednesday, ISO IEC JTC1 SC07 WG19 (the ISO working group on Open Distributed Processing and Modeling Languages) will hold a co-located meeting.

This meeting description is based on preliminary information. OMG Task Forces will finalize their agendas for the meeting during the week of January 12th and post them at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm.

Links to Meeting Information

OMG's home page is www.omg.org. The meeting schedule, and links to agendas and registration for members appear at http://www.omg.org/registration/registration-info.htm. 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.

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design and development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI, the key to successful IT. OMG's standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the MDA, include the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of deployments running today.

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