OMG Hosts MDA Implementers' Workshop on West Coast; December 2-5, 2003 in Burlingame, CA.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2003

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) announces its second Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)) Implementers' Workshop: Succeeding with Model Driven Systems, taking place December 2-5, 2003 in Burlingame, CA, USA. MDA practitioners and vendors will present their experiences and successes in following a model driven approach to solving business IT problems.

Sponsored by Kennedy Carter and Codagen Technologies, the four-day workshop program features six tutorials that will provide a thorough explanation of MDA. These tutorials will be followed by sessions and panels that describe industry experiences and practical issues related to MDA technologies, standards, and products and tools used in developing and deploying applications and systems. Tutorials and a breakdown of session topics are as follows:

-- Tutorials: Understanding MDA; An Overview of MDA and UML 2.0;

MDA Distilled; Introduction to the Eclipse Modeling Framework;

Using MDA to Manage Metadata; and MDA Processes and

Methodology from the Perspective of the Modeling Discipline

-- MDA Foundations

-- MDA Methodologies and Processes

-- Case Studies--Building Real Systems and Applications Using MDA

-- Transformations

-- Applications of UML 2.0 for Effective Modeling

-- MDA's Impact on the Industry

A registration fee of $495.00 includes participation in tutorials, sessions, panel discussions, daily lunch, coffee breaks and an evening reception. For complete details on workshop, program, and registration, see http://www.omg.org/MDA2003.

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. Based on the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), 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. OMG's well-established CORBAservices and industry-specific standards are being re-issued under the MDA in many popular middleware environments. OMG domain (industry-specific) standards cover vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing offices in Japan, the UK, and Germany.

The Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process. All current OMG specifications may be downloaded without charge from the organization's website, www.omg.org; the site also provides additional information about OMG and its activities. For information on joining the OMG, or questions not addressed on the website, please contact OMG headquarters by email at [e-mail], by phone at [phone], or by fax at [phone]. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing through The Information Brokerage(R) service on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org.

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