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Middleware and Related Services (MARS) Platform Task Force (PTF)


Rocknest Panorama taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover

Mission

To solicit, evaluate, and select specifications for recommendation to the Platform Technology Committee for adoption by the OMG (http://www.omg.org/) in the areas of:

  1. Request Broker Technology - including but not limited to Object Request Brokers (CORBA), Message-Oriented Brokers and other technologies that are the target implementation contexts for Platform Independent Services and their Mappings.
  2. General purpose Pervasive Services that are either:
    • Fundamental for developing useful distributed applications
    • Provide a universal basis for Application Integration and Information Integration, or
    • Support higher-level facilities and frameworks
  3. Mappings for such Pervasive Services to specific middleware platforms, and reference mappings from generic PIM constructs to platform-specific constructs and protocol rules.
  4. Supporting Technologies for Application Integration, Information Integration, and Collaboration

Co-Chairs

Name Charlotte Wales Peter Denno
Company Jackrabbit Consulting National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
Email char@drstavros.com peter.denno@nist.gov

Working Groups (WGs)

MARS hosts a number of WGs that serve as MARS' technology incubators. These WGs are focused on and responsible for advancing a specific technology area. This may include the preparation of and review of responses from RFIs and the preparation of RFPs. There are 5 active working groups at this time:

MARS has four other working groups that are currently on hiatus .

As needed, these WGs can be re-activated as is or re-purposed. Also as needed, new WGs can be created.

For more information go to their respective wiki pages. To subscribe to the maillists for each WG, send an email to [email protected] or refer to this site http://www.omg.org/members/mailinglists.html

Looking Ahead

  1. Refer to the OMG Technical Meeting Resource Hub for the MARS report which provides more details on the work done in Amsterdam (June 2019) and our plans for the meeting in Nashville, TN (September 2019): http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?mars/2019-06-30 (OMG member only access).
  2. Use this link to learn what MARS will be working on in Nashville https://www.omg.org/events/tn-19/agendas/MARSPTFCalendar.html. Note that prior to the 4 week deadline for Nashville, it may just be a unscheduled list of agenda items.

Documents Produced During Last Meeting

Coming improvement – one stop shop for all documents produced during the last meeting. Until then (or alternatively), go here: http://www.omg.org/members/cgi-bin/doclistm.cgi (member's only), select year and mars and then hit search. Resulting list will be displayed in reverse document number order.

MARS Technology Roadmap

The latest MARS Roadmap can be found at the MARS home page http://mars.omg.org. Two versions are posted:

Reproduced below is the OMG technology process as captured in the MARS Roadmap.

As of December 2014, both include a Statistics tab, which contains graphical depictions of the Cumulative Technology Process State and MARS Technology Process State by Year. Both work with data recorded since November 2002 and are updated after each TC meeting.

MARS collaborates with a number of other Task Forces (C4I, Robotics, Systems Assurance, Government) and SIGs (DDS, Telecoms, Ontology, BlockChain). For example:

Links to the respective home pages for these TFs, SIGs, and WGs are provided below:

Other links:

Note: All these sites, except for the Meeting Resource hub, are public sites .. no password required to access.