The OMG

The OMG (Object Group Management) is an international standards organization whose role is the standardization of object technologies for better software solution interoperability.

The OMG has more than 1000 members, who are:

• software publishers (like SOFTEAM, Oracle, Microsoft...),
• manufacturers (SUN, IBM...),
• users (France Telecom, AT&T...).

The most well known of the standards issed by the OMG are:

• Corba: bus for the constitution D ' applications D ' distributed objects,
• ODMG: object persistence in object databases,
• UML: object analysis and design method.

For the future, besides evolution of the existing standards, the development of the programming model MDA, Model Driven Architectures, is under way.

SOFTEAM and the OMG

As a contributing member and voter since 1994, SOFTEAM is very involved in the work of the OMG and, in particular, the standardization of UML. SOFTEAM, represented by the VP of R&D, Philippe DESFRAY, maintains a close synergy between the significant R&D efforts and its involvement within the OMG.

As a member of the ADTF (Analysis & Design Task Force), a member of UML RTF (Revision Task Force) and UML FTF (Finalization Task Force), SOFTEAM continues to influence the UML standard and related technologies.

In particular, SOFTEAM directed the introduction of the following technological advances:

• UML profiles, based on its R&D work and its precursor tools.
• flow diagrams (information flow) and protocol state machines within UML 2.0
• definition of the structural SPEM (Software Process Engineering Model), directed by SOFTEAM

SOFTEAM was forerunner and promoter of MDA technologies (Model Driven Architecture), now at the center of the OMG's strategy. SOFTEAM puts great emphasis on applying MDA to UML.

SOFTEAM is one of the very few European companies authorized to participate in decisions coming from the OMG, and all its activities at the OMG make it one of the major worldwide UML players, particularly so in France.