OMG Introduces MDA, SOA and Web Services Workshop; Delivering the Integrated Enterprise--Practice, not Promise.

NEEDHAM, Mass. -- The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announced its upcoming, first-ever Model Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R)), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) Workshop taking place in Orlando, FLA, March 21-24, 2005. The OMG MDA, SOA and Web Services Workshop: Delivering the Integrated Enterprise - Practice, not Promise is co-sponsored by Mathet Consulting, Inc. and SOSY, Inc. Media and analyst sponsors include Application Development Trends, Software Development magazine and Zapthink.

This new workshop will explore how Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, and MDA, enable architects and designers to visualize, build, and integrate a suite of applications that keep a business running. The four-day workshop will examine both the architectural and technical foundations of these IT enablers, showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale required by today's Internet-connected enterprise. Workshop tutorials will cover the basics of service-oriented architecture - WSDL, SOAP, UML(R) 2.0, the MDA, and enterprise architecture - setting the stage for presentations by leading modelers, architects, and tool builders on the state-of-the-art: recent developments in tools and techniques, and real-world implementations of MDA-based, service-oriented distributed applications.

Workshop sessions will cover:

--Established and Emerging Enterprise WS and SOA Applications and Integration Techniques

--SOA and Web Services Application Design and Integration Using MDA

--Tool Chains for Design and Implementation of WS and SOA Applications

--Middleware in SOA and WS Applications

--Semantic Aspects and Ontologies for SOA and WS

--Security, Performance, and Other Challenges

--Web Services, SOA, and MDA Working Together: Case Studies

For further details and to register to attend, visit http://www.omg.org/mda-soa-pr.

Co-Sponsors for the event: Mathet Consulting, Inc. (http://www.mathet.com/) and SOSY, Inc (http://www.sosyinc.com/)

Media Sponsors for the event: Application Development Trends (http://www.adtmag.com/) and Software Development magazine and (http://www.sdmagazine.com).

Analyst Sponsor: Zapthink (http://www.zapthink.com/).

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 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. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org.

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