Morgan Kaufmann OMG Press Morgan Kaufmann Publishers and the Object Management GroupÔ (OMG) have joined forces to publish a line of books addressing business and technical topics related to OMG's large suite of software standards. OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry consortium that was founded in 1989. The OMG creates standards for software used in government and corporate envi- ronments to enable interoperability and to forge common development environments that encourage the adoption and evolution of new technology. OMG members and its board of directors consist of representatives from a majority of the organizations that shape enterprise and Internet computing today. OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling LanguageÔ (UML Ò ) and Model Driven Architecture Ò (MDA), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software, and