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 3 working groups operating at this time:

• The Information Exchange Framework (Information Exchange Framework (IEF) Working Group) Working Group: defining a roadmap for specifications (not just in MARS) to cover the areas of policy based information exchange.
• The Object Database Technologies (Object Database Technology (ODBT) Working Group) Working Groups.
• IDL Profiles Working Group (more text to come)

  1. Draft Vision Statement (not yet approved but available for perusal): mars/09-03-12 (http://www.omg.org/docs/mars/09-03-12.pdf)

For more information go to their respective wiki pages

Under Construction

• Extensible and Dynamic Topic Types for DDS RFP (Status: Initial submission deadline has passed.)
• Information Transformation RFI (Status: RFI Response Deadline has passed.)
• Handling Non-Functional Properties in a Service Oriented Architecture RFI (Status: RFI Response Deadline has passed.)
• Lw FT for Distr. RT Systems RFP (Status: Revised submission deadline has passed.)
• Native C++ Language DDS PSM RFP (Status: Voting List deadline has passed.)
• Transliteration & Transcription RFI (Status: RFI Response Deadline has passed.)
• UML Profile for Advanced and Integrated Telecommunication Services RFP (Status: Voting List deadline has passed.)

• GIOP Compression (FTF WIP page: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/CORBA_Bindings_for_WSDL_FTF.html)
• DDS for Lightweight CCM (FTF WIP page: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/DDS_for_CCM_FTF.html)
• UML Profile for DDS (FTF WIP page: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/UML_Profile_for_DDS_(UML4DDS)_FTF.html)
• CORBA Bindings for WSDL(FTF WIP page: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/CORBA_Bindings_for_WSDL_FTF.html)
• Ruby Language Mapping to CORBA (FTF WIP page: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Ruby_CORBA_Language_Mapping_(RCLM)_FTF.html)