Object Management Group Meets in Yokohama, Japan; Advances Modeling and Biotechnology Standards; Members Also Charter Real-Time and Embedded Systems Task Force.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2002

Members of the Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) met in Yokohama, Japan, from April 22 through April 26, 2002 at a meeting sponsored by the Distributed Objects Promotion Group (DOPG), an organization of fifteen Japanese vendors of distributed computing technology. Application modeling standards, used in every computing discipline, form the foundation of OMG's specification suite. At this meeting OMG members initiated adoption of a modeling infrastructure standard that will define metamodels for Queries, Views, and Transformations in the revised 2.0 version of the Meta-Object Facility (MOF).

Formal Standard Adoption

Also at this meeting, the group formally adopted a new specification standardizing a representation for Gene Expression in distributed biotechnology applications. Defined in OMG's new Model Driven Architecture(TM) (MDA(TM)), the Gene Expression specification is specified as a Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)) model, which defines an XML DTD (Document Type Definition) along with conforming data structures in the programming languages Java and C++.

New Task Force

At OMG, a Task Force carries out the technical work required to define a new specification. In Yokohama, OMG members chartered the Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems (RTESS) Platform Task Force (PTF) to focus efforts to extend the organization's already extensive specifications in these areas.

Meeting Participation and Activities

OMG members also participated in other related activities. Many attended an Information Day on Crisis Response computing. Speakers from the Japan Defense Agency, the Japan Cabinet Secretariat for Security and Crisis Management, the Korea National Defense University, CISCO Corporation's Global Defense Support unit, the Mitre Corporation, Finnish defense research, and the U.S. Department of Defense joined OMG Chairman and CEO Dr. Richard Soley in presenting recent developments in software and computing to support Crisis Management.

An additional Information Day presented OMG standards, including the group's Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Attendees also viewed live demonstrations of OMG technologies, which included four interoperating implementations of the CORBA(R) Component Model (CCM). Those who attended also participated in the following tutorials: a survey of OMG technologies, a technical overview of CORBA, Building Real-time Systems with UML and CORBA, and the UML profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC).

Next Meeting

OMG members will next meet in Orlando, Florida, USA during the week of June 24-28, 2002. Interested non-members may request to come as observers; for information see www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/guest.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.

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