Object management

As stated on the OMG (Object Management) website (http //www.omg. org/), a lack of data standards results in data conversions, loss of information, lack of interoperability, etc. Current standards du jour are XML (Extensible Markup Language) [17], LSID (Life Sciences Identifiers), and now the RDF (Resource Description Framework) from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), which is extensible though hard to implement. Substantial work on OO (Object Oriented) modeling of life science data types takes place at the OMG s LSR (Life Sciences Research) group—this is discussed below. 

CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) was designed by the Object Management Group (OMG) to support open distributed communication between objects across a wide variety of platforms and languages. Interestingly, despite the Object in its name, CORBA does not directly expose the notion of object identity it could more properly be considered a distributed component framework. 

The OMG s Object Management Architecture looks somewhat like the drawing in Figure 10.5. The architecture comprises four parts ... 

The answers to these questions are common across any set of components that can work together (see Section 10.2.2, Components and Standardization). Together, they form a set of definitions and rules called a component architecture. Microsoft s DCOM, the Object Management Group s CORBA, and Sun s JavaBeans are examples. Project teams often devise their own component architecture either independently or (more sensibly) as specializations of these types. Highly generalized architectures cannot provide, for example, a common model of a Bank Customer, but this would be a sensible extension within a bank. 

To ensure the growth of the quality objective, management must resist both internal and external pressures which might subvert its... 

Step 1 In the Data Browser, open the Optimization folder. Select New in the Object manager change the name, if desired, and click OK. 

Object Management Group (OMG) Business process modeling notation (BPMN) final adopted specification (2002), http //www.bpmn.org/ Documants/OMGFinalAdoptedBPMNl-0Spec06-02-01.pdf... 

Object Management Group (OMG) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Core Specification, Version 3.0.3 (2004), http //www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/corba iiop.htm... 

This is a very difficult issue. Many people are even desperate about it. First, we cannot start a new world from scratch. We have to live with the imperfect databases of today and manage their cleanup as best possible. Simultaneously we have to cope with their dramatic growth. Second, the problem involves an issue of standardization. Nomenclature is inconsistent in basically all parts of the field. The same protein has numerous different names, for instance. Even worse, sometimes different proteins share the same name. Standardization issues involve multinational cooperation and very firm management. The Object Management Group (OMG) has created a... 

The real issue within the production environment is the transfer of various object data between applications. What is required is some sort of "object broker" or object management mechanism (OMM). This mechanism effectively handles multiple objed models it converts them into a common format that can be successfully transferred between various applications and then be reconstructed at the other end. 

Figure 6.7. Using Object Management Mechanisms to Transfer Nonobject-Oriented Data... 

The Object Management Group, a consortium of object technology vendors founded in 1989, created a technology specification named CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture). CORBA employs an abstraction similar to that of RPC, with a slight modification that simplifies programming and maintenance and increases extensibility of products. 

Object Management Group (OMG) (1995), Object Management Architecture Guide, Revision 3.0, OMG, Framingham, MA. 

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