The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
05/05/2004
Object Management Group (OMG) members adopted a new standard for Reusable Software Assets during the organization's Technical Meeting last week in St. Louis. In addition, standards for Product Lifecycle Management and Software-Defined Radio began a final series of votes in the OMG adoption process.
OMG provided these details:
Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) Among Others Become Official Following member evaluation and endorsement, a vote by OMG's Board of Directors makes a new standard official. In St. Louis, the Board ratified adoption of three new standards including the Reusable Asset Specification which defines XML schemas that package reusable software assets for exchange among applications via XMI, Web Services, and other protocols. Defined using OMG's Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), this exchange enables Asset-Based Development, a process that encourages the reuse of software development assets in all process workflows.
The two other newly-adopted standards include a set of Life Sciences Identifiers which standardizes access to common concepts in biotechnology, and a UML Profile for Quality of Service and Fault Tolerance which supports the MDA in distributed real-time and high-assurance computing.
OMG members completed their evaluation of draft specifications for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Software-Defined Radio (SDR), and started the final series of votes that will adopt them as official OMG specifications. The PLM specification defines the standard model in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) that brings strategic portions of the STEP and EXPRESS manufacturing standards into OMG's MDA. Following the MDA, this model defines interfaces that enable PLM applications to interoperate using Web Services Definition Language (WSDL), XML, and XMI.
The SDR specification defines UML Platform-Independent Models for Software Radio Infrastructure and Waveform Applications. These models standardize the basic architecture of software radios for both military and civilian applications.
OMG members issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) soliciting drafts for one new domain standard and two new infrastructure standards. A new specification in Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE) will bring the discipline into the MDA and enable interoperability of engineering information among conformant KBE tools. One infrastructure RFP solicits proposals for a mapping from WSDL to C++; the other, a standard transformation from MetaObject Facility (MOF) models to text. Any interested company may join OMG and submit in response to these RFPs.
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.
Headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, and international marketing representatives in Japan, the UK, and Germany, the Object Management Group is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry specifications consortium. OMG member companies write, adopt, and maintain the organization's standards following a mature, open process.
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