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- From: ellis@genoa.osf.org (Ellis S. Cohen)
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- Subject: Final GAIA Workshop Announcement
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.215229.2525@osf.org>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 21:52:29 GMT
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
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- Final GAIA Workshop Announcement
- --------------------------------
-
- Enclosed is a final call for participation in the GAIA Workshop on
- a GUI Application Interoperability Architecture, sponsored by the
- Open Software Foundation, to be held August 18th and 19th at the
- Cambridge Center Marriot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
-
- The attendees include principal architects, researchers, and
- business representatives working in the areas of user interfaces,
- interoperability, and distributed and object-oriented computing.
- Major system and software vendors and end-user organizations are
- all involved in the workshop.
-
- Bruce Kin Huie Ellis Cohen Vania Joloboff
- Technology Manager Architect Engineering Manager
- (617) 621-8953 (617) 621-8718 (617) 621-8817
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION TO
- THE OSF GAIA WORKSHOP ON A
- GUI APPLICATION INTEROPERABILITY ARCHITECTURE
-
- OSF is undertaking the GAIA project to provide a standard
- architecture and API to support GUI (Graphical User Interface)
- based interchange and application interoperability across X and
- non-X information environments. Among the areas we expect to
- address are:
-
- -- Transparent Conversion -- to allow filters to transparently
- provide format conversion for applications that have no common
- formats.
-
- -- Dynamic Updating -- to allow applications to arrange for
- unidirectional and bidirectional notifications about
- incremental changes in state.
-
- -- Embedded Applications -- to allow applications to provide
- sub-windows in which other clients can support editing of
- embedded data within compound documents.
-
- -- Linking Services -- to set up links among objects or regions
- of objects, for purposes of coordinating traversal, viewing,
- and dynamic updating.
-
- -- Groupware Services -- to support applications that allow
- multiple users to simultaneously act on the same information,
- obtaining feedback about the actions of other users
-
- -- Scripting Services -- to allow users to save, edit, and
- replay sequences of actions that span multiple applications
-
- This technology will be developed using an open process, open to the
- entire computer industry, with a core team of architects consisting
- of OSF employees, consultants and qualified sabbaticals made up of
- both OSF and non-OSF members.
-
- Within appropriate environments, we expect the architecture may
- include standard OMG technology to the extent to which it is
- available, including CORBA implementations, and OMG-compliant
- object services.
-
- Part of the work to be done may affect conventions and components
- maintained by the X Consortium. In particular, additional ICCCM and
- Xt work is needed to support embedded applications. OSF, with the
- help of participating companies, would work with the X Consortium to
- deal with these issues in the standard way.
-
- However, GAIA is not aimed solely at X or POSIX environments, but
- is meant to provide interoperability across the widest possible
- range of architectures, operating systems, and windowing
- environments.
-
- The details of the process to be used to deliver this technology are
- subject to change, but the plan is roughly the following:
-
- Workshop: August 18-19
- An Application Interoperability Workshop will be held in
- Cambridge open to the computer industry at large. Following
- initial presentations, most of the workshop will consist of
- breakout groups aimed at defining technical requirements,
- identifying issues, and proposing architectural frameworks.
-
- Request for Information:
- A request will be made to the industry for submission of
- information pertaining to architectures and specifications for
- application interoperability and information interchange.
-
- Development of Architecture and Specifications:
- A core team at OSF, made up of OSF employees, consultants and
- sabbaticals from the computer industry, under the guidance and
- control of OSF will develop the architecture and specifications,
- using responses from the Request For Information. Drafts of the
- architecture and the specifications will be circulated for comment.
-
- Implementation:
- OSF will develop an implementation. The implementation will be
- made available to the industry as other OSF technologies. Where
- appropriate, OSF will issue a request for technologies to meet the
- specification. This work will be undertaken in parallel with, but
- independent of the next release of OSF/Motif.
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- WORKSHOP INVITATION:
-
- Business and technical representatives are invited to attend the
- GAIA workshop. Attendees will be expected to engage in
- discussions about the business models, technical requirements,
- issues and architectural frameworks necessary to construct a
- specification and development plan.
-
- The agenda includes an overview of GAIA and presentations (by
- Richard Soley, Technical VP of OMG) on OMG's Object Management
- Architecture, CORBA specification, and (by Geoff Lewis, chair of
- the OMG Object Services Task Force) on the OMG Object Services
- Architecture and Roadmap.
-
- Most of the workshop will be devoted to working group sessions,
- including groups addressing
-
-
- Underlying Storage and Transport Infrastructure
- (e.g. Use of CORBA, DCE, X, to implement GAIA)
-
- Window System Interoperability
- (i.e. implementation of GAIA in multiple windowing environments
- and integration with other interchange and interoperability
- frameworks)
-
- GAIA Services and Interfaces
- (Format Conversion, Service Registration and Location,
- Interchange, Printing, Embedding, Dynamic Updating,
- Linking, Floor Control, Script Recording, etc.)
-
- Open Process and Business Issues
-
-
- ===========================================================================
-
- WORKSHOP LOGISTICS:
-
- Meeting date: August 18-19 (all day, both days)
-
- Time: 8:00am - 5:30pm
-
- Location: Cambridge Center Marriott
- Two Cambridge Center
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
- (617) 494-6600
-
- A registration fee of $75 will be charged to help offset the cost
- of meals and meeting facilities. All of those registered will be
- placed in a mailing group for future email messages. Please DON'T
- FORGET to include your email address. Please provide the
- following information.
-
- ===========================================================================
- GAIA REGISTRATION FORM
- ===========================================================================
-
- NAME:
-
- Company:
-
- Address:
-
-
- Telephone:
-
- FAX:
-
- email:
-
- Technical or Business:
-
-
- The REGISTRATION FEE of $75.00 may be paid by check or credit card
- at the time of registration or on the first day of the workshop. No
- purchase orders will be accepted.
-
- You may email all registration material to "bhuie@osf.org".
-