OMG Offers Specifications to Meet Interoperability Needs Across Vertical Industries.FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 1998-- CORBA-Based Specifications for Telecommunications, Health Care, and International Finance Areas Offer Interoperability Benefits The Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) is honing Honing could refer to
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-- A Currency Specification that enhances international currency
transactions,
-- A Business Object Component Architecture specification that
offers to smooth the integration and migration from legacy
systems to component-based software.
-- A Notification Service for telecommunications that will help
network designers create more efficient networks.
-- A Lexicon Query Service Interface Specification for health care
that defines common interfaces for accessing any medical coding
or classification scheme including international schemes, like
the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision
(ICD-9) or a site-specific scheme for laboratory test codes.
-0- "Individual domain areas (OMG's nomenclature for "vertical industries") are extending the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global standard to meet the needs of their particular industries. While these specifications meet members' individual needs, they also enhance CORBA's strength as a horizontal platform," explained Richard Soley Richard Mark Soley (Baltimore, Maryland) is the chair and CEO of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. , OMG Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "This offers an important business advantage. As companies - and industries - continue to merge the ability for new and legacy systems to interoperate is crucial. Forging these standards is an important business linkage strategy for corporate management." Specification Overview: Currency Specification for Commerce and Finance The new Currency Specification has broad applicability to a wide range of commercial and financial software applications. This sophisticated specification covers a variety of currency conversions including automatic conversions and conversions based on time-dependent exchange rates. The specification supports the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. currency standard as well as individual enterprises' currency requirements such as redemption coupons. The specification supports the definition and management of currencies including currency representation, currency validation, and money algebra. "The currency specification is one of the first Common Business Objects defined as part of the OMG's continuing efforts to standardize domain-specific and cross-domain software components. As such, it represents a major milestone. To date, the OMG has been synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as CORBA. While CORBA still provides the middleware foundation for all OMG efforts, the Currency Specification is demonstrable evidence that the OMG's architecture vision is a living and growing entity that continues to adapt to changing user requirements," said Kevin Tyson, principal systems architect at Enterprise Engineering Associates. Specification Overview: Business Object Component Architecture (BOCA BOCA Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. BOCA Bird Observers Club of Australia BOCA Business Object Component Architecture BOCA Borland Object Component Architecture (Borland) ) The BOCA specification leverages the existing CORBA and UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. infrastructure to provide a framework for distributed business applications. The BOCA describes the constructs and types used to build a business object system, while an optional Component Definition Language (CDL 1. CDL - Computer Definition anguage. A hardware description language. "Computer Organisation and Microprogramming", Yaohan Chu, P-H 1970. 2. CDL - Command Definition Language. Portion of ICES used to implement commands. Sammet 1969, p.618-620. 3. ) built on OMG IDL (1) (Interface Definition Language) A language used to describe the interface to a routine or function. For example, objects in the CORBA distributed object environment are defined by an IDL, which describes the services performed by the object and how the data enhances the expression of business concepts in object definitions. Common Business Objects such as the Currency object fit into the BOCA, where they assemble naturally into smoothly-running integrated applications. BOCA concepts build upon a forthcoming OMG technical specification for distributed components, to be issued later this year. "Business applications have an additional layer of commonality beyond the interfaces expressed in OMG IDL. The BOCA and CDL formalize this commonality, adding business-logic interoperability to the technical interoperability already provided by CORBA. This will reduce the time and cost required to develop and deploy distributed, component-based business solutions," said Dr. Jon Siegel, OMG's Director of Domain Technology. Specification Overview: Notification Service for Telecommunications The Notification Service specification, while driven by OMG's telecommunications domain membership, can help streamline any event-driven application running within large, distributed, heterogeneous networks. The CORBA-based Notification Service greatly enhances the existing OMG Event Service by adding the ability to specify, filter and detect events; and set quality of service properties for channels, proxies, or events. The current OMG event service is key to most applications because it allows objects to broadcast events when necessary. However, broadcasting can increase traffic on networks and decrease performance. The new Notification Service will enable developers to design more efficient network management, monitoring and configuration systems without increasing network overhead. Specification Overview: Lexicon Query Service Interface for Health Care The Lexicon Query Service (LQS LQS Laser-Quality Speed LQS Lack of Qualified Staff LQS Local Queue Storage ) defines a set of common interfaces that allow the contents of one or more medical terminology Medical terminology is a vocabulary for accurately describing the human body and associated components, conditions, processes and procedures in a science-based manner. This systematic approach to word building and term comprehension is based on the concept of: (1) Word roots, (2) coding schemes to be displayed, queried, and cross-referenced. By utilizing the LQS interface, a vendor can enable guided data entry, code translation, code description and display, and the ability to ask complex classification and inference questions about a coding scheme. "Advanced medical computer applications such as decision support, information mining, and retrospective analysis rely heavily on unambiguous coding of clinical information. Sophisticated coding systems have emerged to address the coding needs of medical information systems. Accessing these systems can require advanced programming skills, a high degree of technical understanding and lock-in to a single vendor's technology. The LQS specification bridges the gap between today's applications and modern coding systems, putting the advanced capabilities of second and third generation coding schemes within the reach of current application programs and technology," explained Harold Solbrig, software development specialist, Advanced Technology Research Group, 3M Health Information Systems. The LQS will significantly lower the learning curve and cost to fully utilize the contents of today's coding and classification schemes within medical record systems as well as provide a framework on which future coding schemes may be based. All the specifications are currently in final voting in the OMG Technical Committee and will be official upon approval by OMG's Board of Directors. About OMG With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. (TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object oriented See object technology and object-oriented programming. applications based on widely available interface specifications. OMG is headquartered in Framingham, MA, USA and has international marketing offices in the Australia, Bahrain, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and the UK. Additionally, OMG is a sponsor of the COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Enterprise series of Trade Shows and Conferences. For information on joining OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at +1-508-820 4300, by fax at +1-508-820 4303, by email at: info@omg.org. OMG provides current information and services for Distributed Object Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple computers connected via a network or in different processes inside the same computer. Computing through The Information Brokerage(TM) on the World Wide Web at: www.omg.org. -0- Note to editors: OMG(R), Object Management(R) and the OMG logo are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group. The Information Brokerage(R), CORBA(tm), CORBA - The Middleware That's Everywhere(tm), OMG: Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(tm), IIOP (Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) The CORBA message protocol used on a TCP/IP network (Internet, intranet, etc.). CORBA is the industry standard for distributed objects, which allows programs (objects) to be run remotely in a network. (tm), OMG Interface Definition Language See IDL. Interface Definition Language - (IDL) 1. An OSF standard for defining RPC stubs. 2. Part of an effort by Project DOE at SunSoft, Inc. to integrate distributed object technology into the Solaris operating system. (tm), CORBAservices(tm), CORBAfacilities(tm), CORBAmed(tm), and CORBAnet(tm) are trademarks of the Object Management Group. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Object Management Group Michael J. Bradley Michael Joseph Bradley (May 24, 1897-November 27, 1979) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania. Michael J. Bradley was born in Philadelphia, PA. He was engaged as a telegrapher from 1914 to 1917. , +1-508-820 4300 mike@omg.org |
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