Here's a Bentley press release...
Bentley, a private company, became a principal member of the
OpenGIS Consortium in the summer. This information details that
Sedona Geoservices has some involvement in Bentley's CORBA development.
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Subj: Bentley delivers CORBA and Java-based GIS interoperability for Open GIS Consorti
Date: 97-01-17 10:08:45 EST
From: AOLNewsProfiles@aol.net
EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 1997--
Company Demonstrates Implementation to OGC, Cooperates with
Genasys, Lockheed Martin, Mitre, Oracle, Sedona
Graphics, and Sun Microsystems
A group of industry-leading GIS technology providers including
Bentley Systems, Inc., today announced that they have developed a
CORBA/Java-based method for interoperability of GIS data and systems
based on object-oriented technology. The software architecture,
including a live demonstration, was presented to the entire OGC
technical membership community in response to their formal request
for a CORBA compliant implementation. Bentley's submission was
developed in cooperation with Genasys, Lockheed Martin, Mitre
Corporation, Oracle, Sedona Graphics, and Sun Microsystems.
David Schell, president of the Open GIS(TM) Consortium (OGC),
comments, "We are pleased that Bentley has been such an active and
contributing participant in our specification activity. It was
gratifying to see the working prototype of a CORBA-based interface
put forward by Bentley."
This implementation is also significant because CORBA could well
become the preferred communication vehicle for sharing GIS
information between systems. Its architecture of multiple platform
support is compatible with existing GIS systems and the trend towards
data-servers and Internet clients. If accepted by OGC, the
implementation will become the industry's CORBA-based
interoperability benchmark to be used between member GIS systems.
OGC members include Bentley, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), ESRI, and
Intergraph (NASDAQ:INGR).
Jean-Baptiste Monnier, vice president of geoengineering at
Bentley, comments, "As the center of gravity of GIS and
geoengineering moves to servers, CORBA becomes an essential
communications strategy. CORBA allows any server to talk to any
client in this new world of the Internet. As an example, our team
demonstrated GIS objects being shared amongst Unix servers,
Web-browsers, and Java applications."
The CORBA implementation was based on Bentley's ProActiveM(TM)
technology and an objective version of MicroStation GeoGraphics(TM).
The solution offers comprehensive interoperability of GIS data and
systems. It includes specifications for translation of data,
real-time sharing of data, and remote access to geospatial operations
such as intersection and unions. The implementation also gives Java
and other CORBA-supported applications full access to this
functionality.
"We are delighted to see Bentley's commitment to CORBA," said
Steve Cooperman, director of spatial solutions for Oracle.
"Bentley's response to OGC will help pave the way to making CORBA the
de facto standard for developing and deploying open, network-centric
spatial applications."
OGC is creating the Open Geodata Interoperability Specification
(OGIS), a set of software specifications for sharing geographic
information across tools and organizations. Last summer, OGC issued
a request for proposal (RFP) for interface standards in the areas of
CORBA, OLE, ODBC, and the Internet. Final decisions on these
standards are planned for later in 1997.
For more information on OGC, please contact Lance McKee at
508/655-5858 (US). For more information on Bentley or the CORBA
implementation, please contact Bentley at 1-800-BENTLEY, +1
610-458-5000 (US), +31 2356-85588 (Europe), +61 3-9699-8699 (Asia),
through E-mail at jen.mcwilliams@bentley.com, or through
www.bentley.com
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