OMG-TM- Announces UML-TM- for Enterprise Applications Workshop; Model Driven Solutions for the Enterprise, December 3 - 6, 2001.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2001

The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)), the international software consortium responsible for the Unified Modeling Language(TM)(UML(TM)) specification, will host the second annual UML for Enterprise Applications Workshop, December 3-6, 2001 in Burlingame, CA, USA. Sponsored by Rational Software Corporation, UML for Enterprise Applications will bring together the communities of UML modelers, architects, methodologists and vendors who are concerned with specifying enterprise applications with UML. Users with relevant enterprise modeling experience are invited to come and share their experiences with each other and their vendor community. The Workshop will start off with tutorials, and will primarily feature open discussions of case studies and technology choices.

Tutorials include:

- UML 1.4

- Metadata Integration with MOF(TM)& XMI(R)

- UML Components

Sessions include:

- UML Methodology

- UML Case Studies

- UML Profiles and Extensions

- Model Driven Architecture Case Studies

- Model Driven Architecture Methodology

- Vendors Roundtable

...and much, much more.

The Workshop is open to all with an interest in, and understanding of, UML modeling solutions that apply to some combination of distributed applications, CORBA, components, XML/XMI and metadata.

Demonstration space is available at the workshop venue; please contact Kevin Loughry, Marketing Events Specialist, at [e-mail] for more information.

A registration fee of $495 includes admission to all tutorials and sessions. For program and registration information, see http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/UML2001/.

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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