Objective Interface Announces Integration With Telelogic Rhapsody Model-Driven Development Solution

Market Wire, July, 2006

Today at Object Management Group's (OMG's) Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop, Objective Interface Systems, Inc. announced a technology integration and strategic partnership with the Telelogic Systems and Software Modeling Business Unit (formerly I-Logix), to provide a single integrated solution that gives developers transparent access to high-performance distributed communications architecture. The companies have integrated the market-leading Model-Driven Development solution, Rhapsody® with the ORBexpress® communications middleware, the real-time and embedded industry's most widely deployed Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) product. Rhapsody developers can now add the world's highest-performing communications middleware to their systems while retaining all the benefits of Unified Modeling Language (UML) based Model-Driven Development (MDD). Enhancing the integration between the products optimizes and automates the development workflow for applications requiring high-performance distributed communications.

"Standalone systems are virtually a thing of the past. Even the smallest embedded device is networked into a larger system. With the integration of ORBexpress and Rhapsody, developers can take a field-proven MDD approach to the design and deployment of high-performance, small-footprint distributed systems," said Joe Jacob, Senior Vice President of Objective Interface Systems. "In addition, by extending MDD to distributed systems, Rhapsody developers maintain their software at a higher abstraction level and retain the benefits of location transparency that have made distributed architectures so popular. We are delighted at the opportunity to partner with Telelogic, the world's leading provider of MDD solutions to the real-time and embedded industry."

"Our collaboration with Objective Interface offers enhanced functionality to Rhapsody users, allowing them to easily integrate with the world's fastest and smallest ORB. The benefit is faster time-to-market for Rhapsody-generated applications in distributed environments," said George LeBlanc, Vice President Product Marketing and Business Development, Telelogic Systems and Software Modeling Business Unit. "We look forward to expanding our long and productive relationship with Objective Interface, known for its thorough and rigorous product engineering."

ORBexpress now integrates into Rhapsody's workflow. Users annotate UML models maintained by Rhapsody with standard stereotypes that identify CORBA interfaces and modules, thus triggering generation of Interface Definition Language (IDL) files. These generated IDL files are translated into programming language source code by ORBexpress, and linked with the ORBexpress libraries. The result is a fully functional executable directly deployable to distributed real-time and embedded systems.

Availability

ORBexpress with integrated support for Rhapsody is available today from Objective Interface. For more information on Objective Interface communications middleware, please visit: www.ois.com/products , call 1 800-800-OIS7 in the U.S., 33 (0) 6 68 35 15 45 in Europe or 81 (0)3-5623-2112 in Japan or e-mail inquiries to: info@ois.com .

About Rhapsody

Telelogic Rhapsody is an award winning, Unified Modeling Language (UML)-compliant, systems design, application development and collaboration platform. Rhapsody is used by design and development teams to deliver complete real-time embedded applications. Rhapsody uniquely combines a graphical UML programming paradigm with advanced systems design and analysis capabilities and seamlessly links with the target implementation language, resulting in a complete model-driven development environment, from requirements capture through analysis, design, implementation, and test. For more information on Rhapsody, please visit: www.ilogix.com .

About ORBexpress from Objective Interface

ORBexpress is based on the Real-time CORBA standard that enables real-time and embedded devices in heterogeneous environments to communicate seamlessly. Thousands of customers worldwide have used the ORBexpress communications infrastructure to build more flexible, upgradeable and capable products. Available in C , Ada and Java, ORBexpress has been recognized as the fastest ORB in the industry in an independent study conducted by Boeing's Phantomworks Group.

About Objective Interface Systems

Objective Interface is the worldwide leader of high-performance, real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions. The company provides CORBA ORBs, publish-subscribe technology based on the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service standard (DDS), and secure communications middleware development tools based on the MILS architecture to meet the high-performance requirements of military and aerospace, telecommunications, data communications, industrial automation and process control, transportation and consumer electronics markets. Objective Interface products are the communications core of many mission-critical products and systems including mission-critical avionics systems, network management, vehicle control and management systems, software defined radio, telecommunication systems, process control systems and nuclear fusion ignition facilities. Objective Interface customers consist of the world's most advanced product and engineering organizations including Boeing, BAE Systems, British Aerospace, CERN, Daimler-Benz, EADS, Ericsson, Eurocontrol, General Dynamics, Harris, Hughes Network Systems, ITT, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Lockheed Martin, Lucent, Nikon, Nortel, Northrop Grumman, Philips, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Rohde & Schwarz, Saab, Samsung, Sandia, Selex Communications, Spectrum Signal, Telefunken, Thales, TRW, the U.S. Department of Defense, ViaSat and many others. For more information, please visit: www.ois.com .