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Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org
New Standards Focus on Computing Performance at
OMG Technical Meeting in
Athens, Greece, April 11-15, 2005
New OMG Profile for UML Will Enable Executable Models
Needham, MA, USA - May 2, 2005 - Members of the Object
Management Group™ (OMG™) started work on a standard Profile to support
executable models built using the organization's Unified Modeling Language™
(UML®) at their meeting in Athens, Greece during the week of April 11 to
15, 2005. The meeting was co-sponsored by Platinum sponsor Kennedy-Carter
Ltd. (www.kc.com), gold sponsor
Accelerated Technology, a Mentor Graphics Division (www.acceleratedtechnology.com), and silver
sponsor Adaptive, Ltd. (www.adaptive.com).
At the meeting, members advanced these and other standards through the
group's adoption process; attended information days and tutorials; and
participated in co-located meetings of the Consultative Committee for
Space Data Systems (CCSDS;
www.ccsds.org)
and the Crisis Response Executive Advisory Team (CREATE).
Executable UML
Members issued the first of a set of Requests for Proposals initiating
work on a standard for Executable UML. The Executable UML Foundation will
define a subset of the language that supports unambiguous execution. Any
company may join OMG and submit a draft specification in response to this
RFP; for information and deadlines send an email to info@omg.org.
New Specifications Focus on Software Performance
Two documents took on their final form and started the series of votes
leading to adoption as official OMG specifications: High Performance
Enablers standardizes four categories of backwards-compatible
modifications to the CORBA® IIOP® protocol that streamline processing of
data for network invocations, reducing overhead to an absolute minimum.
Streams for CORBA Components defines a streaming network protocol that
allows software components to exchange audio, video, and other types of
large data blocks as continuous streams.
OMG members issued a Request for Comments for a UML Profile for a
System-on-a-Chip, publishing the draft standard for public comment before
adoption. To review the document, send an email request to info@omg.org.
The profile will allow modeling of very small footprint systems in the
Unified Modeling Language (UML).
New Regulatory Compliance Software Standards Group
OMG members chartered the Regulatory Compliance Special Interest Group,
which will develop software standards reflecting best practices for
regulatory compliance.
Crisis Response Meeting
CREATE, the Crisis Response Executive Advisory Team co-sponsored by OMG
and the Crisis Management Initiative (www.cmi.fi), met all day Wednesday.
Sponsor Presentations
Alan Kennedy, Founder of Platinum-level meeting sponsor Kennedy-Carter
Ltd, spoke on "MDA® with Executable UML: A Healthcare
Illustration." Stephen Mellor, Chief Scientist of Mentor Graphics,
spoke on "Agility in Modeling." And Pete Rivett, CTO of
Adaptive, Ltd., spoke on "MDA - Outside the Box: Model
Management."
Tutorials, Information Days, and Software Demonstrations
During the meeting week, OMG members and staff presented three half-day
tutorials on the group's various specifications. On Monday afternoon,
members of CCSDS and OMG's Space Domain Task Force gathered for a seminar
on Standards in Space Software. An information day focused on upcoming
standards work in Enterprise Interoperability. Eight member companies
demonstrated software products implementing OMG specifications.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, during the week
of June 20-24, 2005; the meeting will be co-sponsored by IBM (www.ibm.com)
and Raytheon (www.raytheon.com).
Interested non-members may attend as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest.
Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration.
OMG's home page is www.omg.org.
Information about the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) is collected at www.omg.org/mda.
All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.
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About The OMG
With well-established standards covering software from design and
development, through deployment and maintenance, and extending to
evolution to future platforms, the Object Management Group (OMG) supports
a full-lifecycle approach to enterprise integration which maximizes ROI,
the key to successful IT. OMG's Modeling standards, the basis for the
MDA®, include the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Common
Warehouse Metamodel (CWM™). CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker
Architecture, is OMG's standard open platform with hundreds of millions of
deployments running today. Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, the Object
Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry specifications consortium. More information about OMG
can be found at www.omg.org.
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