Abstract: application integration using object technology

Abstract

Application Integration Using Object Technology Andrew Watson Vice President and Technical Director, OMG The Object Management Group (OMG) has for ten years been building an architecture for application integration based on object technology. This architecture, called the Object Management Architecture, is the OMG’s roadmap for developing a standard communication substrate (called CORBA) and a set of layered system services. An Interface Definition Language (OMG IDL) describes the interfaces between the components in a programming languageand implementation-independent manner. This talk describes the application integration problem, summarizes OMG’s fast, open, industry-wide consensus-building standardization process, and the OMA and CORBA work that has sprung from it, and gives a brief outline of future developments at OMG, including CORBA 3.0 and OMG’s use of XML.