OMG Members to Advance Computing Standards, Including Web Services for Data Warehousing; Yokohama, Japan, April 22-26, 2002.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2002

Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) will convene in Yokohama, Japan, April 22 through 26 at a technical meeting sponsored by the Distributed Object Promotion Group (DOPG).

At this meeting, members will advance more than 15 new standards through the various stages of OMG's adoption process. The Analysis and Design (AD) Platform Task Force (PTF) will review proposals to make its established data warehouse standard, the Common Warehouse Metamodel(TM) (CWM(TM)), usable via Web Services interfaces. Expressed in OMG's Model Driven Architecture(TM) (MDA(TM), information at www.omg.org/mda), this new specification will define standardized Data Warehousing operations and the base model in the popular Web Services format.

Additional Analysis and Design standards work will specify an industry standard for Data Warehouse data descriptors; upgrade OMG's current application modeling foundation (in technical terms, the standard metamodel) to release 2.0; standardize testing of models defined in OMG's Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)); and define a textual, editable form for UML models, typically expressed as graphics. Industry-specific Domain Task Forces will work on new standardized facilities for Software Portfolio Management (general business); Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable (Finance); Gene Expression (Biotechnology); and Distributed Accounting (Telecommunications). Most of these facilities will be defined in the MDA, OMG's new base architecture.

OMG's Task Force for Middleware and Related Services (MARS) will extend the Common Object Request Broker Architecture(R) (CORBA(R)) with a revised mapping to the programming language C; a mechanism to traverse firewall boundaries; standard interfaces to control load balancing and monitor performance in multi-CPU installations; and a mechanism for distribution of data in realtime computing. This meeting description is based on preliminary information; OMG Task Forces will issue their agendas for the meeting during the week of April 8th and post them at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas.htm.

OMG Standards Information Day

On Tuesday, April 26, in conjunction with Open System Solution Partners Group, OMG will present a full day introduction to OMG Standards, with a special focus on the Model Driven Architecture. The morning agenda will include an overview of OMG Standards and a presentation of Japanese case studies involving successful implementation of the standards.

OMG Chairman and CEO Dr. Richard Soley will then present on the vision of MDA and its importance in the marketplace at this informational seminar. Makoto Oya, Director of Strategic Alliance, Enterprise Business Planning at Hitachi, Ltd. Software Division, will talk about MDA and IT System Design. For a complete schedule of sessions throughout the day, visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/mda_info_day.htm.

Meeting Tutorials

Attendees will learn about the MDA and OMG's other specifications at a series of half-day tutorials throughout the week. On Monday morning, a tutorial will cover Modeling of Enterprise Collaboration; in the afternoon, another will cover the Building of Real-Time Systems with UML and CORBA. On Wednesday afternoon, OMG's introductory tutorial will survey of all the group's specifications from the UML through CORBA to the MDA. Lastly, on Thursday afternoon, a tutorial will cover the technical basis of CORBA. The OMG tutorial program provides a foundation of knowledge that prepares new members to participate in the group's many standardization processes, and to understand the group's many standards in diverse areas of computing.

Workshops and Software Demonstrations

A Focus Day on High Confidence and Safety Critical Software will take place on Wednesday, April 24th. The workshop agenda is posted at www.omg.org/news/meetings/hcscs/index.htm. An Information Day on Crisis Response Software will also be held that day sponsored by OMG's C4I Domain Task Force; see the agenda posted at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/crisis_response.htm. Finally, implementers of the CORBA Component Model (CCM) will hold a forum and comprehensive CCM tutorial from 1:00 until 5:00 PM also on April 24th, with information posted at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/ccmiforum.htm.

Software demonstrations are another important meeting activity. Typically, about ten member companies will demonstrate software products or services that implement OMG specifications at the meeting. In addition, on Wednesday morning, April 24th, a spokesperson from sponsor organization, DOPG will speak to a plenary session about the role of standards and OMG in their program.

Links to Meeting Information

OMG's home page is www.omg.org. Meeting schedule and registration for members appear at www.omg.org/registration/registration-tc.htm, and for guests at www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.htm. A table of specification work underway, organized by meeting, appears at http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/Tech_Adoption/index.htm; follow the links on this page to the important documents for that specification. 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.

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.

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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