Object Application Awards

Dear Colleague,

For Immediate Release

Announcing the finalists of the OMG Object Application Awards 2003 Kronberg-- May 27, 2003.

The Object Management Group� and LogOn Technology Transfer, announce today the finalists of the international OMG Object Application Awards 2003.

The OMG Object Application Awards Program 2003, now in its ninth year,
recognises the most outstanding object oriented application. The Object
Management Group has created the Awards program in order to honour those innovative developers and companies whose applications demonstrate major progress for the information technology.

Finalists were chosen for two categories:

-Best integration using an MDA® approach
-Best vertical domain application

The winners will be announced on June 10th, in London, at the OMG Day London 2003: http://www.ltt.de/omg-days.2003/london.shtml


The following applications were chosen as finalists in this year's program:

Category 1: Best integration using an MDA approach

*** Project: Electron Accelerator Control with Java and CORBA® (C+S)***
Submitted by: Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana - Slovenia

C+S system initially addressed the problem of controlling and monitoring 
C+a physical experimental facility. The specific purpose of a control system, i.e. C+S, is to carry commands from the operators authorized to modify the C+state of the devices to devices themselves and to periodically report back and visualize the status of the machine.

The application runs on 10 server machines and on a similar number of client machines, although given the open nature of the system, many more clients can connect through CORBA at the same time.

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:
-C++ for the development of servers
-Java for the development of clients
-IBM Visual Age for Java for visual development of Java client applications
-A suite of web tools for bug tracking - Bugzilla -UML� for designing the object model (called BACI) -Visual Studio for C++


*** Project: MDA modeling infrastructure***
Submitted by: Fraunhofer Institute Fokus - Germany and NTT Data - Japan

For the realization and vertical application of the MDA a consequent
application of the available standards and technology is necessary which leads to an Open Modeling Infrastructure on top of which different modeling tools for different purposes (graphical front-ends, text editors, model transformers and code generators) can be integrated seamlessly with each other. The project submitted has provided such an open modeling infrastructure and is fully
based on standards, namely MOF�, EDOC, UML and CCM. It has been shipped to a customer who used and adapted the infrastructure to the special needs of the e-Government domain. The application runs on PCs.

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:
-C++ and Java as implementation languages
-UML, EDOC, MOF Profile for UML, CCM Profile for UML for the specification
-Rational Rose, Visual Studio C++ 6.0


***Project: Wuerth Phoenix***
Submitted by: Wuerth Phoenix BV - Switzerland

The software solution Wuerth Phoenix is an ERP system based on MDA and consists of three modules: Order Processing, Purchasing and Logistics. These three modules represent the strategic business of any Wuerth Company.  However, the modules actually implemented at a company must reflect not only the national language(s), but also cultural characteristics of the business.  The first implementation, which has been streamlined from the generic solution, is the solution for Wuerth Italy. Wuerth Italy receives more than 5,000 orders from customers per day with about 15,000 order positions. Prime
goal for the company is to deliver all orders on the same day to the
customer. The goods are to be picked up on the same day and be ready for the carrier.

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:
-JBuilder (Borland) -Java as programming language -VisiBroker (Borland)
-Select Enterprise as UML modeling system -CVS for source management
-Versant, ODBMS -Deploy Director (Sitraka) -Doc2Help for online help

Category 2: Best vertical domain application

***Project: End-to-end Application Lifecycle management: Java Application Platform***
Submitted by: Credit Suisse Financial Services - Switzerland

In order to be able to properly manage the change from classic programming languages like PL/1 and COBOL to object oriented technology and from a traditional two tier architecture to a three tier architecture with web based clients and application servers, a well defined architectural process was adopted to support efficient and thereby cost effective application development and deployment. The separation of business requirements from underlying infrastructural and system specific constraints has been consciously decided upon in order to allow for a more reusable application development process.

Currently, more than 80 Java application projects use the JAP infrastructure to build and deploy their products.

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:
-Java -ANT -various Unix and NT Shell scripts

***Project: eZACCESS***
Submitted by: Zurich North America - USA

EZACCESS is a new front-end (JSPs) of the claim system providing a
restructured user-interface with all the benefits of a Web-based GUI.
Underneath the JSPs and Servlets is Zurich NA¹s largest EJB Server - The
Claim Server. It rivals any system with the functionality provided and
services many other Front-end applications outside of eZACCESS (Care Center system, Vendor Management system, Universal Capture System) through web services. EZACCESS is estimated to provide a 5% gain in productivity for Claim Adjusters. Given the thousands of end-users, this represents millions of dollars of productivity gains every year.

By the end of 2003 about 2,500 workstations will run this system.

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:

-WebSphere Studio Application Developer - Java
-HTML
-Rational Enterprise Studio


***Project: Instant Force***
Submitted by: Telefónica I+D - Spain

Instant Force was built by Telefónica and enables the development of
Workforce Management Solutions quickly and at very low costs. The
construction of systems with Instant FORCE Platform is based on the assembly of prefabricated components (modules), which form part of the platform, configuring a base solution on which to make adaptations and extensions of the functionality of the customer's needs

The following tools and languages were used to develop this application:
-ORACLE 
-CORBA 
-C/C++ 
-Java 
-XML 
-HTML 
-WML 
-Servlets 
-JSP 
-Java2Me


Note to the editors:
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Technology Transfer.  Press registrations for the OMG Day London can be sent to Milos Gedosev at LogOn (gedosev@ltt.de).

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