The Object Management Group (OMG) is one of those worthy standards groups that probably doesn't generate much excitement in most IT practitioners. Yet OMG is a body that has done much to reshape the development landscape over the past decade.
For application projects that are large or complex, application architects and developers rely on visual models to structure code development and manage projects. Rational is a leading seller of tools to create models of applications and databases...
Lifecycle tools address various stages of the development process, including the up-front design, coding, testing and ongoing maintenance once an application is implemented. The company will release a set of tools this summer to address the...
Shortly after the release of C# Builder, Borland will sell a bundle of applications that address the different phases of the development process, from modelling and design to actual coding and testing, said Michael Swindell, Borland's director of...
Delving further into the theory, the Object Management Group’s idea of model driven architecture comprises three interlinked viewpoints: For those less focused on the more theoretical aspects of IT, model driven architecture (MDA) is an example...
From the OMG’s perspective this is largely a boon for application integrators, who spend (nay, waste) time converting perfectly good code to work on different systems. Some software tools companies were already ahead of what the OMG is trying to...