OMG Members Meet to Standardize Industry-specific Software in Manufacturing, Biotechnology, and Space/Satellite Computing.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001

Members and Guests to Meet in Danvers, MA, USA from

July 9 through 13

Members of the Object Management Group (OMG) will meet in Danvers, MA, USA, from July 9 through 13 to adopt software standards in manufacturing, biotechnology, space and satellite computing, and other areas. In manufacturing, a new standard defines Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Services and integrates this key piece of manufacturing software with the OMG's established Product Data Management (PDM) facility. In biotechnology, a new specification defines laboratory equipment control interfaces in OMG Interface Definition Language (OMG IDL), making compatible equipment accessible from CORBA-compliant software. Extending CORBA standards beyond earth's atmosphere, issuance of a new Request for Proposals (RFP) will start work on a standard for the exchange of satellite command and telemetry data.

During the meeting week, members will also apply OMG's open, vendor-neutral, consensus-building process to extend OMG standards in software modeling including the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), the CORBA middleware platform, and industry-specific domain facilities. Expanding the scope of OMG's work, members have scheduled a discussion and a series of votes to complete the adoption of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as the base architecture for OMG specifications. Information about the MDA is posted at www.omg.org/mda.

Extending and maintaining the CORBA architecture, OMG members plan to issue RFPs to start efforts to standardize interworking between CORBA and the Java Messaging Service (JMS), and to update the mapping from OMG IDL to the still-widely-used language C. New specifications for data-parallel CORBA, security domain membership, and a dynamic scheduling service for real-time CORBA applications, their evaluation by OMG members now complete, will start the series of votes leading to final adoption. In the modeling arena, a new RFP will be issued for a profile defining software test points in UML models, and a new specification for Software Process Engineering Management will start its series of votes leading to final adoption.

Exclusively sponsored by IONA Technologies (www.iona.com), the meeting will be held at the Sheraton Ferncroft Resort Hotel in Danvers, MA, USA, about 25 miles north of Boston. Tutorials during the week will cover basic CORBA and recent developments including manipulation of XML documents as CORBA valuetypes; and basic and real-time UML. OMG meetings, with their large attendance, typically host workshops and topical gatherings. In Danvers, OMG will host two meetings and two workshops, open to interested non-OMG-members: Representatives from pharmaceutical companies and organizations will kick-off an effort to standardize software to manage the pharmaceutical supply chain. Information about this meeting is posted at healthcare.omg.org/pharmaceutical_initiative/. OMG's Utilities Domain Task Force will host a meeting of the Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Control Center API (CCAPI) task force, advancing interoperability in the electric power industry. One workshop, described at www.omg.org/lsr/oibc/, will discuss Objects in Bio- and Chem-informatics. The other will discuss software grids, and the challenges of flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing within a dynamically-changing collection of individuals, institutions and resources. Information on this workshop is posted at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/software_services_grid_workshop.htm.

Technical meeting registration information for guests appears at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm, and for members at www.omg.org/registration/registration-tc.htm. Meeting Highlights are listed at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/meeting_highlights.htm. Agendas for Task Force and Special Interest Group meetings, and abstracts for tutorials, appear at http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm. For information about the OMG, see www.omg.org or send an email request to [e-mail].

About The OMG

With well-established standards covering software from design, through development, to deployment and maintenance, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration. Based on the established Object Management Architecture (OMA) and emerging Model Driven Architecture (MDA), OMG's standards cover application design and implementation. OMG's Modeling standards include the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform. OMG also issues the CORBAservices and a rapidly-growing set of industry-specific standards in vertical markets including healthcare, telecommunications, biotechnology, transportation and a dozen other areas. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in the UK and Germany, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC. The OMG is a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference to be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]. The OMG provides current information and services for distributed enterprise computing on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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