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Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org
New OMG Data Distribution Interoperability
Standard Will
Support Network-Centric Operations in Multiple Environments
Domain Standards Work Focuses on Robotics, Manufacturing and Space at
OMG Technical Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 20-24, 2005
Needham, MA, USA - July 6, 2005 - Members of the Object Management
Group™ (OMG™) started work on a Data Distribution Interoperability
standard at their meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, during the week
of June 20 to 24, 2005, co-sponsored by IBM (www.ibm.com)
and Raytheon (www.raytheon.com). At
the meeting, members advanced these and other standards through the
group's adoption process, and attended information days and tutorials.
Data Distribution Service Interoperability Specification Work
OMG members issued a Request for Proposals (RFP), setting requirements and
deadlines for adoption of a new specification) for an interoperability
protocol for the group's highly successful publish-subscribe Data
Distribution Service (DDS). Supporting network-centric operations in the
diverse environments of real-time embedded systems, enterprise networks,
and large-scale information backbones, the completed specification will
serve data in small networked embedded systems or across a large
enterprise and beyond with the interoperability and portability that the
industry expects from OMG technologies.
Manufacturing, Space and Robotics Domains Start Work on New
Specifications
The Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems (ManTIS) Domain Task
Force (DTF) issued an RFP for Product Lifecycle Management Services,
Version 2.0. Building on the successful 1.0 release, this version
increases support for Engineering Change Requests, Process Planning, and
Specification Control. The Space DTF issued an RFP for a Metamodel for
Space Command Languages. The metamodel will standardize a "best
fit" metamodel representing the many proprietary command languages
currently in use in satellite and ground system control, and enable
standard tools that generate scripts in a variety of languages, or
translate from one language to another.
Any company may join OMG and submit a draft specification in response
to these RFPs; for information and deadlines send an email to info@omg.org.
As its first step in standardizing an interoperability architecture and
interfaces in Robotics based on OMG's Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®),
the Robotics Special Interest Group issued a Request for Information (RFI)
to the industry. Responses will influence the group's technical direction
and its choice of initial specification topics. Any company or person may
respond to the RFI; for details see www.omg.org/robotics_rfi.
Two New Specifications Start Adoption Votes
Their member evaluations complete, two submissions started the sequence of
votes that will elevate them to the status of OMG specifications. A UML
Profile for System-on-a-Chip (SoC) supports modeling of chip design for
computing and communications systems using OMG's Unified Modeling Language™
(UML®), and the MOF™ 2.0 Versioning and Development Lifecycle
specification supports version control of a library of models, analogous
to the version control used in code development.
Two New Specifications Focus on Performance
A vote by OMG's Board of Directors is the final step in the adoption of
each new specification. During the meeting week, OMG's Board voted to
adopt specifications for High Performance Enablers for CORBA®, and
Streams for CORBA Components.
Meeting Sponsor Presentations
Dr. Donald Ferguson, IBM Fellow and SWG Chief Architect, spoke on
"MDA Meets SOA - Without Making a Loud Bang." Dr. Kenneth Kung,
Architecture Technology Area Director, Raytheon Company, spoke on
"Architecture with Models and UML/SysML."
Tutorials, Information Days, and Software Demonstrations
During the meeting week, OMG members and staff presented seven half-day
tutorials on the group's various specifications. An information day
focused on Architecture Driven Modernization with the topic
"Introduction to Legacy Transformation Tool Sets." A daylong
seminar covered IT Standards and Regulatory Compliance, and a half-day
session discussed Collaborative Work in the Open Source and Open Standards
Communities. Nine member companies demonstrated their software products
implementing OMG specifications.
Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information
OMG members will meet next in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, during the week of
September 12-16, 2005. 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 http://www.omg.org.
Information about the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is collected at http://www.omg.org/mda.
All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.
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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Logo, UML and CORBA are registered trademarks, and OMG, Object Management
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