OMG Unveils Program for Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop; Reston, VA, July 12-15, 2004

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2004--The Object Management Group(TM) (OMG(TM)) today announces the program for its fifth annual workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. Co-sponsored by Borland Software and DARPA, the workshop will take place July 12-15, 2004 in Reston, VA. Open to all, the program will include one and a half days of tutorials on relevant technologies and two and a half days of presentations, panels and discussions. There will also be technology exhibits and demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday of the workshop. The early-bird registration fee is ongoing until June 11, 2004. To register, visit http://www.omg.org/realtime2004.htm.

Highlights of the program include the following tutorials, session topics and panel discussions.

-- Tutorial topics--Real-time CORBA(R), Lightweight CORBA Component Model, Data Distribution Service, Multiple Interacting Levels of Security, Software Communications Architecture & Model-Driven Architecture(R) (MDA(R))

-- Session topics - Components, Resource Management, Novel Exploitations of MDA, Fault Tolerance, Security, Software Defined Radio: Implementing the Software Communications Architecture (SCA), Case Studies & Experience Reports

-- Panels- MDA in Real-Time: Use and Misuse & Building Better Software-Defined Radios

The OMG invites Real-time and Embedded Systems users and vendors to attend. Complete agenda, hotel and registration information is available at http://www.omg.org/realtime2004.htm. Exhibit space is available; for more information visit http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2004/demoinfo.htm or contact Kevin Loughry at [e-mail], [phone].

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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 standards cover multiple operating systems, programming languages, middleware and networking infrastructures, and software development environments. 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.

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