By Rachel Chalmers
Given the choice between XML’s flexibility and Corba’s enterprise-level security, most application developers would opt for both. Bowing to the wishes of their respective constituencies, the Object Management Group (OMG) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have announced a membership exchange: OASIS is now a domain member of the OMG, and the OMG is a sponsor member of OASIS.
As a result, the OMG will participate in OASIS technical discussion groups and committees, and will be given access to the registry/repository at XML.org. For its part, OASIS will be able to vote on technology adoptions in the Domain Technology Committee (DTC), Domain Task Forces (DTFs), Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Subcommittees of the OMG.
The OMG is integrating XML into the Corba technical infrastructure, explained chairman Richard Soley, so that new XML technologies will plug and play with current applications including C, C++, Java, Cobol [and] Ada as well as future new technologies. We have a lot in common, added OASIS executive director Laura Walker. Both OASIS and the OMB are committed to interoperability through vendor-neutral standards.
