OMG Hosts Another Successful Technical Meeting Week; Charters Legacy Transformation Special Interest Group and holds four Information Days.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003

Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) met in Boston, MA from September 8 through 12, 2003 at a meeting sponsored by Compuware Corporation (www.compuware.com). 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(R) (MDA(R)) 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(R) Component Model (CCM): a lightweight version of the CCM, suitable for use in embedded systems, and a UML(TM) 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, UK, during the week of November 17-21, 2003. Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation, see www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.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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