Preface to this Document Version

This document version is an enhancement and improvement of OMIS 1.0 which was published in February 1996. Critical feedback from various persons and recognition of several problems have lead to OMIS 2.0. There is no change of the basic principles of the interface specification. However, services were renamed for better consistency and sometimes extensions were made to meet requirements with specific tool scenarios.

Part I describes motivation, project goals, and requirements of the project. Part II comprises a description of the structure of the monitoring interface. It describes the underlying system model, what services are, and how to extend OMIS. Part III gives a detailed description of services provided by the monitoring interface.

We would like to encourage people to send us feedback on the ``Requests for Comments'' and also maybe on ``Known Problems''. Any further ideas, comments, criticism etc. are also welcome (omis@informatik.tu-muenchen.de).

Please see also chapter History for the document history.