Legacy Transformation Working Group Meeting and Four Information Days Highlight Upcoming OMG Technical Meeting; Boston, MA, September 8-12, 2003.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003

Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will meet in Boston, MA, USA from September 8-12, 2003 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation. Members will work the organization's technology adoption process, attend tutorials, and view demonstrations of products implementing OMG specifications. The Boston meeting will feature the following four Information Days; Model Integrated Computing and Embedded Systems Focus Days, a Financial Services Forum, a Space Information Day, and a Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) Information Day. In addition, OMG's new Legacy Transformation Working Group will work on a draft Request for Proposals for legacy software transformation and design recovery, soliciting the industry's first standards in this increasingly important area of software engineering.

Other activity to note is a planned meeting between the Rule Markup Initiative (RMI) and the OMG Business Rules SIG. RMI's goal is to provide an integrated rule-markup language approach for business rules and is investigating working with OMG on standardization of production rules and adoption of the Meta Object Facility(TM) (MOF(TM)) standard in its work. The formation of a joint Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems (ManTIS) and Real-time Embedded and Special Systems (RTESS) Control Systems Working Group will kick off joint work on specifications related to equipment control.

New Infrastructure and Domain Specifications

The following specifications may be recommended for adoption votes at the Boston Technical Meeting:

-- Chemical Structure & Access Representation (Life Sciences

Research)

-- Two related to MOF model versioning and transformations

-- Business Process Runtime Interfaces (MDA and web services

related)

-- 8 related to Middleware and Real-time systems

Information Days

A Financial Forum will explore approaches to managing sensitive financial data. Taking place on Monday, September 8th, the one-day event will cover the OMG RFP for Sensitive Data Management, which calls for techniques for modeling Sensitive Data, enabling Secure Transactions and securing management of Sensitive Data, among other related topics. For more information, visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/financial_services_forum.htm.

The Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM), a new specification from the OMG, defines a UML-based metamodel which then may be used to define any software development process. Software process engineering has long been a difficult task, due in part to the lack of standards and methodologies, as well as the innate complexity and dynamic nature of software development endeavors. The SPEM Information Day, taking place on Tuesday, September 9th, will introduce the standard, and include presentations and discussions on related topics.

The Model Integrated Computing and Embedded Systems Focus Days on Monday and Tuesday will feature presentations from DARPA/IXO, MITRE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, General Dynamics, Vanderbilt University and the University of Austria. For more information, visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/MIC_Emb_day.pdf.

A Space Information Day will take place on Wednesday, September 10th. The day will feature a tutorial and lessons learned regarding XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE) as well as discussions on Space standardization requirements and opportunities with presentations from industry experts. For more information visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/special_events.htm.

Integrate 2003, September 9-10th

Co-located with the Technical Meeting is the third event in a new series from OMG, Integrate 2003. The conference will focus on the business and technical aspects of application integration using many different infrastructure standards - OMG's own and other key industry standards including Web Services, XML/SOAP, C#/.Net, Java, CORBA(R), and more.

Product Demonstrations

A technology demonstration area, which will coincide with the Integrate 2003 Conference, will feature demonstrations of OMG-compliant technology from over 30 vendors.

Links to Meeting Information

This meeting description is based on preliminary information. OMG Task Forces will finalize their agendas for the meeting during the week of August 25th and post them at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm.

OMG's home page is www.omg.org. The meeting schedule, and links to agendas and registration for members appear at https://www.omg.org/registration.htm, and for guests at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.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.

More information about sponsor Compuware Corporation can be found at www.compuware.com.

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