OMG Internet SIG
Web/OMA Integration Architectures (WOIA)
Working Group
Minutes of Meeting #2
Chair: Frank Manola, OBJS
September 14, 1998 - 1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
OMG Internet Platform SIG homepage: http://www.objs.com/isig/home.htm
Attendees
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<partial list of attendees - complete list coming from
OMG soon>
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Pranab Baruah - Boeing - pranab.k.baruah@boeing.com
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Larry Bugbee - Boeing - larry.bugbee@pss.boeing.com
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Roger Burkhart - Deere & Company - roger@ci.deere.com
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Thomas Culpepper - 3M - tcculpepper@wpmail.code3.com
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Frank Manola - Object Services and Consulting - fmanola@objs.com
- co-chair
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Simon Raik-Allen - Viant - simonr@viant.com
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William Robinson - GTE Laboratories - william.robinson@gte.com
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Harold Solbrig - 3M - hrsolbrig@wpmail.code3.com
Discussion
This second meeting of the WOIA Working Group was mainly a repeat of the
first meeting: since there were many who had not attended the first
meeting, there was considerable discussion about the motivation for setting
up the WG, and possible goals and work products.
Manola had circulated a draft initial charter via the internet@omg.org
email list following the intial meeting of the group in Orlando (this was
subsequently recirculated after this meeting as well). This draft charter
reads as follows:
"The Web/OMA Integration Architectures Working Group has
as its general goals:
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identifying the relationships (and overlaps) between specifications
being developed in the Web and OMG communities, and reducing unnecessary
incompatibilities
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examining applications that use combinations of OMG and Web technologies,
determining technology shortfalls, and recommending solution approaches.
These are becoming very important, given the increasing number of systems
being built which incorporate both CORBA-based distributed object technology
and Web technology, and the increasing frequency with which Web technologies
such as XML are being referenced in OMG Task Force activities."
The group identified several key issues, including:
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what are the different views of what the Web is versus a distributed object
system?
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what are the potential effects of Web technologies like XML, etc. on OMG's
work?
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how do we get from "XML-RPC" to "XML-OMA"?
The group also identified some useful things to address:
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developing a technology roadmap (a repeat from the last meeting!)
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application characterization: getting domain-side input on uses of merged
Web/OMA technology
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collecting information on how Web/object integration is done now, and whether
that's inadequate or not
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type system rationalization
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the need for more "education" within OMG on XML, DOM, and other potentially
relevant Web technologies
Manola noted that two OBJS reports, Towards
a Web Object Model and Some
Web Object Model Construction Technologies, provide an introduction
to many of the technologies potentially relevant to WOIA.
WOIA now has its own mailing list: woia@omg.org;
OMG members should send mail to request@omg.org
to get on this list.