Welcome to the Auldenfire Sweden Object Management Group (OMG™) resource page. Here you will find information and links to the OMG web site related to areas that are of special importance to our Enterprise Systems Architecture Laboratory (ESAL).

The Auldenfire Group of companies are active participants in defining international standards and the OMG is one of the standards bodies that we are committed to. Our focus within the OMG is primarily concerned with the establishment of Enterprise Architectural standards with a concentration in Integration Services. Specific OMG initiatives that we feel are critical to this process include:

• Unified Modeling Language
• Meta Object Facility
• Model Driven Architecture
• Common Warehouse Metamodel

Auldenfire Sweden AB is currently working on the following OMG initiatives:

OMG Platform Technology Committee
Analysis and Design Platform Task Force:
UML Testing Profile RFP	Don Baldwin
CWM Web Services RFP	Chris de Vaney
CWM MIP RFP	Chris de Vaney
UML 2.0 Diagram Interchange RFP	Don Baldwin
UML 2.0 Superstructure RFP	Don Baldwin
MOF 2.0 XMI RFP	Chris de Vaney
MOF 2.0 IDL RFP	Chris de Vaney
MOF 2.0 Core RFP	Chris de Vaney
ORB and Object Services Platform Task Force:
Data Distribution Service RFP	Chris de Vaney
PTC Revision Task Forces:
MOF 1.5 RTF	Chris de Vaney
ORB and Object Services Platform Task Force:
Online Upgrades RFI	Don Baldwin
OMG Domain Technology Committee
Common Enterprise Models Domain Task Force:
Workflow Process Definition RFP	Don Baldwin
Competency RFP	Don Baldwin
Telecommunications Domain Task Force:
Notification/JMS Interworking RFP	Don Baldwin

Additional information can be found at the Object Management Group web site at the following links:

OMG Work in Progress:
http://www.omg.org/schedule/

OMG Process Deadlines:
http://www.omg.org/schedule/tcdeadlines.html

Auldenfire Sweden AB is a Platform voting member of the OMG.

OMG Platform Members may represent organizations, which produce infrastructure products, which are used across many application domains. Typically they are submitters and implementers of OMG specifications such as CORBA and UML.
[Source: OMG Definition]

Auldenfire Sweden AB is committed to developing domain independent enterprise architectural solutions, methodologies, and automation tools. Our Technology Assessment laboratory focuses on evaluating how Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products and tools can be adapted for enterprise architecture solutions. By leveraging COTS solutions with our own internally developed solutions, we can focus on developing a more robust enterprise architecture development environment that reduces cost, leverages existing technology, and accelerates the development life-cycle.

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CWM MIP RFP

Common Warehouse Metamodel Meta Interchange Patterns

This RFP requests proposals that specify metadata interchange patterns that support and conform to CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). The specific objectives of this RFP are the following: Establish an industry standard specification for CWM metadata interchange patterns. Leverage the CWM Specification and existing CWM metadata interchange mechanisms. A complete specification of the syntax and semantics of typical CWM metadata interchange patterns. The CWM Web Services RFP (ad/2001-04-12) has a dependency on this RFP.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Chris de Vaney - Chief Architect

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CWM Web Services RFP

Common Warehouse Metamodel Web Services

This RFP requests proposals that provide Web services for metadata interchange that support and conform to CWM (Common Warehouse Metamodel). The specific objectives of this RFP are the following: Establish an industry standard specification for CWM Web services. Specify generic mechanisms that can be used to interchange CWM metadata over the Web. Leverage the CWM Specification and existing CWM metadata interchange mechanisms. This RFP solicits proposals for the following: A complete specification of the syntax and semantics of standard CWM metadata interchange (request-response) protocols that is based on typical CWM metadata interchange patterns. A complete specification of the syntax and semantics of CWM Web services API that allow loosely-coupled interchange of CWM metadata over the Web and that is based on the standard CWM metadata interchange protocols. This RFP depends on the CWM Metadata Interchange Patterns RFP (ad/2001-04-11) which solicits proposals for typical CWM metadata interchange patterns.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Chris de Vaney - Chief Architect

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Data Distribution Service RFP

Data Distribution Service

This RFP solicits proposals for an MDA specification describing the application-visible interface and behavior of a Data-Distribution Service (DDS) that supports a Data-Centric Publish-Subscribe (DCPS) for real-time systems and offers optionally a Data Local Reconstruction Layer (DLRL). The MDA specification should include how the application models data, how it interacts with the middleware to describe the communication and QoS requirements, how data is sent and received (relative to the QoS requirements), how the applications access to it and the kinds of feedback the application gets from the state of the middleware.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Chris de Vaney - Chief Architect

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Online Upgrades RFI

Online Upgrades

This Request for Information (RFI) solicits information on facilities that permit the replacement of objects in systems without requiring the system to go off-line, reboot, or similar actions that would make the system unavailable for a lengthy period of time.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Don Baldwin - Enterprise Core Architect

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MOF 1.5 RTF

Meta Object Facility 1.5

MOF - The MetaObject Facility standardizes a metamodel for object oriented analysis and design, and a repository. (The CWM standardizes a metamodel for data modeling) Because they are based on the MOF metamodel, UML models can be freely passed from tool to tool using XMI - without the commonality of definition provided by the MOF, this would not be practical.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Chris de Vaney - Chief Architect

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UML 2.0 Diagram Interchange RFP

Unified Modeling Language 2.0 Diagram Interchange

The Unified Modeling Language is a language for visualizing, specifying, constructing and documenting the artifacts of software systems. It is a general-purpose modeling language that can be used with all major object and component methods and applied to all application domains. The OMG adopted the UML 1.1 specification in November 1997. Since then UML Revision Task Forces have produced several minor revisions, the most recent being the UML 1.4 specification, which is to be adopted in early 2001. This Request for Proposal (RFP) is the 4th in a series of RFPs under the UML 2.0 umbrella. The first three RFPs have already been issued and focus on (a) UML Infrastructure (b) UML Superstructure and (c) OCL respectively. Please see www.omg.org/technology/uml for more information on OMG UML
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Don Baldwin - Enterprise Core Architect

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UML 2.0 Superstructure RFP

Unified Modeling Language 2.0 Superstructure

This RFP solicits proposals for the following: Enable the modeling of structural patterns, such as component-based development and the specification of run-time architectures. Clarify the semantics of the generalization, dependency, and association relationships. Support encapsulation and scalability in behavioral modeling, in particular, for state machines and interactions. Remove restrictions on activity graph modeling due to the mapping to state machines.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Don Baldwin - Enterprise Core Architect

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UML Testing Profile RFP

Unified Modeling Language Testing Profile

To date, UML technology has focused primarily on the definition of system structure and behavior. With the approach towards system engineering according to model-driven architectures with automated code generation, the need for solid conformance testing, certification and branding is increased. However, UML provides limited means for describing test procedures within UML. This RFP solicits proposals for the following: (1) A UML testing profile based upon the UML metamodel or a MOF based meta-model for UML testing. (2) That enables the specification of tests for structural (static) and behavioral (dynamic) aspects of computational UML models, and (3) That is capable of inter-operation with existing test technologies for black box testing.
More info [www.omg.org]

Auldenfire Sweden AB Contact Person:
Don Baldwin - Enterprise Core Architect

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MOF 2.0 XMI RFP

Meta Object Facility 2.0 Extended Markup Language Metadata Interchange

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of a series of RFPs related to developing the next major revision of the OMG Meta Object Facility Specification, which will be referred to as MOF 2.0. Some of the RFPs pertain to the specification of the technology-neutral MOF itself, while others pertain to mapping the MOF to specific implementation technologies. This RFP pertains to updating XMI, the OMG's MOF-XML mapping.
More info [www.omg.org]

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MOF 2.0 IDL RFP

Meta Object Facility 2.0 Interface Definition Language

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of a series of RFPs related to developing the next major revision of the OMG Meta Object Facility specification, which will be referred to as MOF 2.0. Some of the RFPs pertain to specifying the technology neutral MOF itself, while others pertain to mapping the MOF to specific implementation technologies. This RFP pertains to updating the MOF to IDL mapping to be consistent with MOF 2.0 and to address specific issues that were judged to be beyond the scope of MOF 1.x RTF (Ex: See mandatory requirements 2,5 and 7)
More info [www.omg.org]

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MOF 2.0 Core RFP

Meta Object Facility 2.0 Core

This Request for Proposal (RFP) is one of a series of RFPs related to developing the next major revision of the OMG Meta Object Facility specification, which will be referred to as MOF 2.0. Some of the RFPs pertain to specifying the technology neutral MOF itself, while others pertain to mapping the MOF to specific implementation technologies. This RFP pertains to: 1. The MOF meta-metamodel and its metadata management and interchange semantics (for example the instance and extent management of MOF repositories) 2. Reuse of the UML 2.0 Infrastructure.
More info [www.omg.org]

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Workflow Process Definition RFP

Workflow Process Definition

This Request For Proposal solicits submissions that specify extensions to UML specification. This RFP solicits proposals for the following: o A metamodel and/or profile which extends UML for defining workflow processes. o A standard for exporting and importing a Workflow Process Definition from tools and repositories, and for exchanging a Workflow Process Definition with other enactment domains.
More info [www.omg.org]

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Competency RFP

Competency Framework

This RFP solicits proposals for standard interfaces for a competency framework. A competency framework will include interfaces to do the following: Support the maintenance of the metadata used to define the different types of competencies available. This includes information about how a particular kind of competency is rated, described, and compared to one another as well as the distinct recognition of the difference between authorization and privilege. Support the creation, categorization, and maintenance of a set of competencies created from the metadata types described above. Support the ability to create and maintain a set of competency evaluations for something. A set of competency evaluations is something's rating or score for a particular competency set (or subset). Support the ability to do gap analysis between two competency evaluations. A gap analysis is a numerical comparison that can be used to evaluate how closely one competency evaluation is to another.
More info [www.omg.org]

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Notification/JMS Interworking RFP

OMG Notification Service - J2EE Java Message Service Interworking Standards

The OMG standard for asynchronous publish-subscribe communications is the Notification Service, while in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard, the Java Message Service (JMS) provides this capability. This document solicits proposals to enable interworking between the two standards, so that CORBA and Java objects (including EJB's) can communicate with each other asynchronously. This RFP solicits proposals for the following: Mappings between Notification and JMS message types. Reconciliation between the different qualities of service (QoS) provided by the Notification Service and JMS. Ability to maintain transactional message contexts across JMS and the Notification Service. Implementations which facilitate end-to-end messaging between Notification and JMS.
More info [www.omg.org]

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