OMG Advances Standards at Technical Meeting in Orlando, FL

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Members of the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) met in Orlando, FL during the week of September 22-26, 2008. At this meeting, nine new and revised specifications finished the adoption process and were approved by the OMG Board of Directors. The Technology Committees also approved the issuance of six new requests for information/proposal. This meeting was co-located with the SOA Consortium.

The OMG Board of Directors voted to approve nine specifications:

New Specifications

• Abstract Syntax Tree Metamodel (ASTM)
• Software Metrics Metamodel (SMM)
• UML^® Profile for Data Distribution Service (DDS)
• PIM & PSM for Smart Antenna
• Reference Metamodel for EXPRESS Information Modeling Language

Revisions or Finalizations of Specifications

• DDS Interoperability RTF
• Quality of Service for CORBA^® Component Model 1.1 RTF
• OMG SysML™ RTF
• UML 2.2 RTF

Additional Specifications Moving Toward Adoption

In addition to the specifications mentioned, the following specifications are expected to go before the OMG Board of Directors for adoption at the next meeting.

• Robotic Localization Service RFP
• Executable UML Foundation Revised Submission
• Federal Transition Framework (FTF) FTF Final Report
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Services 2.0 FTF Final Report
• 2nd Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) FTF Final Report

Get Involved: Processes Open for Participation

OMG is an open-membership organization and welcomes any organization, government agency, or university to join and contribute to our specifications. The following were issued in Orlando and are currently open to participation.

• UML Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) RFC
• CORBA Binding for WSDL RFC
• Ruby CORBA Language Mapping RFC
• Event Metamodel and Profile (EMP) RFP
• Agent Metamodel and Profile (AMP) RFP
• Concrete Syntax for a UML Action Language RFP

Non-members may download information on any of these Request processes from http://www.omg.org/public_schedule. For some processes, member votes have extended the Letter of Intent (LOI) dates beyond the deadline stated in the Request for Proposals (RFP). For more information on any RFP, send an email to info@omg.org.

Special Event Podcasts

Select presentations from the Business Architecture Information Day were recorded as podcasts and will be available soon on-demand on the OMG website.

Meeting Sponsors

This meeting was sponsored by: Annual Sponsors: No Magic, Inc., PrismTech; and Silver Sponsors: Lombardi Software and Metastorm.

Next Meeting; Links to Additional Information

OMG members will meet next in Santa Clara, Calif., U.S.A. during the week of December 8-12, 2008. Members and non-members are invited to attend the OMG SysML Information Days; the BPM Roundtable event “BPM in Industry Services;” OMG Tutorials; and the co-located meeting with the SOA Consortium (http://www.soa-consortium.org) that will be held during the meeting week. Several of the winners of the SOA Case Study Competition, announced in Orlando, will be presenting their case studies during a panel discussion at the Wednesday plenary lunch.

Interested non-members may attend OMG Technical Meetings as observers; for an invitation see http://www.omg.org/tcguest. Members may register for the meeting at http://www.omg.org/registration. All OMG specifications may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.omg.org/specifications.

About the Object Management Group

OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time, Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries, including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based Communications and Space.

OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML^®) and Model Driven Architecture^® (MDA^®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA^®) and support a wide variety of industries.

More information about OMG can be found at www.omg.org. OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.

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