Article #4000 - OMG

Many of the specifications and methodologies developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Object Management Group (OMG) have been embraced by international SDOs and widely adopted. Both of these groups have active, significant ties with various international SDOs.

It will be useful for GridWise™ architects to be familiar with the well established specifications of these two groups, and to monitor their progress in specific areas, to seek specific liaisons where appropriate as GridWise architecture is revealed.

Parts of the architectures, specifications, and languages of both the W3C and OMG may serve among building blocks to GridWise architectures.

OMG, Object Management Group

OMG, Object Management Group
Overview

OMG mission is to produce and maintain software standards for interoperable enterprise applications. OMG IDL (interface definition language) is already an ISO standard. A Utility Domain Task Force has recently been merged with the Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems Domain Task Force. They have generated standards and submitted them to the IEC TC57 WG13 for adoption as well.
Significance for GridWise Average+
Industry Sector(s) IT, eCommerce, Finance, Telecommunications, Industry…
Geopolitical Reach International
Type of Standards Body Vendor-neutral Software standards
Relevant Standards and Work Groups

Relevant subgroups

  • Architecture Board
  • Platform Technology Committee--Middleware and Related Services PTF, Real-time, Embedded, and Specialized Systems PTF, Agents PSIG, Legacy Transformation PSIG, Ontology PSIG
  • Domain Technology Committee--Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems DTF, Business Enterprise Integration DTF, Consultation, Telecommunications DTF, eGovernment DSIG, Super Distributed Objects DSIG, Systems Engineering DSIG
  • ManTIS--Manufacturing Technology and Industrial Systems Domain Task Force

Examples of key standards:

  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
  • Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
  • Common Warehouse Model (CWM)
  • XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)
  • Data Access Facility (DAF), Data Acquisition for Industrial Systems (DAIS), and Historical Data Access from Industrial Systems (HDAIS).
Design Center

Data Access Facility (DAF), Data Acquisition for Industrial Systems (DAIS), and Historical Data Access from Industrial Systems (HDAIS). Inter-operation between the UMS and other applications or systems Middleware (CORBA, UML, MDA)

Interrelations Formal liaisons with ISO JTC 1 SCs (STEP ISO 10303), IEEE, W3C, ANSI X12, UN/CEFACT; The Open Group
Contact Information OMG: Object Management Group(Link opens in a new window)
Last Modified: 2006-04-25