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Microsoft's 'Oslo' to implement modeling alternatives


By David Worthington
June 4, 2008 — 
ORLANDO — If you can’t beat them, absorb them. That seems to be Microsoft’s theory as it prepares its big entrance into the modeling arena by talking up extensibility here at the Tech·Ed Developers conference.

Microsoft’s emerging “Oslo” modeling language will be a low-level language, one designed to be work with domain-specific modeling languages as well as BPEL and Unified Modeling Language (UML).

But what’s to distinguish Oslo from other modeling languages, one might ask? Extensibility, according to Steven Martin, director of product management in Microsoft’s connected systems division. Oslo will be horizontal, he said, with an XML base that developers can use as a foundation technology.

Microsoft will provide a roadmap for its support of other modeling languages later this year, he said, confirming messages from the company’s highest levels. During the conference’s keynote presentation, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates revealed that the Oslo-wave release of Visual Studio Team System would implement UML.

“The modeling model is disparate—even at Microsoft,” Gates remarked.

According to Martin, Oslo technology will feature a repository that is meant to capture all necessary information related to an application, such as its business logic, deployment, and identity and governance policies. Microsoft is developing a common set of repository technologies in anticipation that customers may be using multiple repositories across their organizations, he added.

Another Oslo component, known as Architecture Explorer, is a graphical environment for model design. Developers, though, may still hand-code their model and have it graphically represented within the designer, said Martin.

Microsoft is exploring ways to make use of its modeling technologies in BPM Alliance customers’ products, said Martin. The company will reveal more at this fall’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles how it will make those technologies more broadly available, whether it will standardize its modeling language, and which other modeling languages it will support, he noted. That conference, set for late October, is the first PDC since 2005.


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