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

To solicit, evaluate, and select specifications for recommendation to the Platform Technology Committee for adoption by OMG 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

There are currently 2 working groups operating at this time.

The Information Exchange Framework (Information Exchange Framework (IEF) Working Group) and the Object Database (Object Database Technology (ODBT) Working Group) Working Groups. For more information go to their respective wiki pages for details.

Under Construction

1. CORBA Binding for WSDL RFC (Status: RFC has been issued.)
2. DDS for Lightweight CCM RFP (Status: Revised submission deadline has passed.)
3. Extensible and Dynamic Topic Types for DDS RFP (Status: Initial submission deadline has passed.)
4. GIOP Compression RFP (Status: Voting List deadline has passed.)
5. Information Transformation RFI (Status: RFI has been issued; responses pending.)
6. Handling Non-Functional Properties in a Service Oriented Architecture RFI (Status: RFI has been issued; responses pending.)
7. Lw FT for Distr. RT Systems RFP (Status: Voting List deadline has passed.)
8. Native C++ Language DDS PSM RFP (Status: Voting List deadline has passed.)
9. Ruby CORBA Language Mapping RFC (Status: RFC has been issued.)
10. Transliteration & Transcription RFI (Status: RFI has been issued; responses pending.)
11. UML Profile for Advanced and Integrated Telecommunication Services RFP (Status: RFP has been issued; responses pending.)

under construction