Upcoming OMG Meeting to Focus on B2B Integration

Business Wire, May 15, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

As Web-based applications, the Internet, and its functionality evolves, your company must progress along with it. The future of your organization depends on staying abreast of technology trends such as Enterprise Application and Supply Chain Integration, e-Business, and B2B integration. It also depends on leveraging standards and technologies that make this happen, such as UML(TM), XML, CORBA(R) and EJB. At the upcoming Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Meeting Week in Oslo, Norway, June 12-16, 2000, OMG members and invited guests will apply OMG's open, vendor-neutral, consensus-building process to set industry standards encompassing technologies such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA(R)), the Unified Modeling Language (UML(TM)), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), to enhance Enterprise Application Integration, e-Business, and B2B e-Commerce.

The Object Management Group establishes industry standards for technology solutions that impact a wide variety of industries -- from healthcare to manufacturing, telecommunications to finance, retail to transportation. The OMG's platform-independent interoperability specifications enable organizations to leverage the technology they have in place today, while continuing development at meetings such as this one assures that they will be able to embrace the new technologies that come along tomorrow. The OMG's specifications capitalize on the strength of multiple technologies including eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for structured content, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for design, and CORBA/IIOP for platform and language neutral interoperability. XML is being used by OMG to represent configuration information for components in the CORBA Component Model and design metadata in the XML Metadata Interchange Specification, and two new specifications will further integrate XML and OMG work: One, expected to start final votes at this meeting, maps XML to OMG/ISO Interface Definition Language, combining the robustness of CORBA invocation with the expressiveness of XML; the other standardizes and automates a conversion path between UML/XMI schemas and the newly emerging XML schema and DTD work.

Jointly sponsored by SINTEF, Telenor and mogul.com, this meeting will be held at the Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. New specifications scheduled to begin final vote following discussions at this meeting include: dynamic scheduling in distributed real-time computing environments, management of security domain membership, and a facility that defines an industry standard for on-line ordering of telecommunications services, Members will also discuss initial proposals for a special CORBA protocol for wireless devices, and a healthcare-oriented information locator facility.

Tutorials during the week will introduce new attendees to basic CORBA and the new CORBA Component Model, Realtime CORBA and the Unified Modeling Language standard for analysis and design. Interoperability in military computing applications will be highlighted at a Coalition Day hosted by OMG's C4I Special Interest Group. A plenary session on Wednesday morning will feature talks by Dr. Arne Berre of SINTEF on "Object Technology in Norway," and by Prof. Trygve Reenskaug of Mogul Norge AS on UML. Guest speakers will present talks on a number of topics at subgroup meetings during the week, and demonstrations of CORBA- based products will be given by IONA Technologies, Orthogon Gmbh, ComponentSource, NCC Systems, Boldsoft, Tri-Pacific, Genesis Development Corp. and others.

Complete information about The Object Management Group may be found at www.omg.org, or you may send an email request to: info@omg.org. Technical meeting registration information may be found at. Agendas for OMG's Task Forces and Special Interest Groups may be found at http://sisyphus.omg.org/news/meetings/registration.htm. Agendas, updated on a daily basis, may be found at http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/agendas/index.html. If you are interested in attending the upcoming OMG meeting as a guest, please contact the OMG's business development team at 1-781-444 0404 or info@omg.org.

About The OMG

With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA and has international marketing offices in Bahrain, Brazil, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and the UK, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. Additionally, the OMG is a sponsor of Ziff-Davis Trade Shows and Conferences in this technology area.