<s>
The	O
object-modeling	B-Application
technique	I-Application
(	O
OMT	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
object	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
approach	O
for	O
software	B-Application
modeling	O
and	O
designing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
developed	O
around	O
1991	O
by	O
Rumbaugh	O
,	O
Blaha	O
,	O
Premerlani	O
,	O
Eddy	O
and	O
Lorensen	O
as	O
a	O
method	O
to	O
develop	O
object-oriented	B-Application
systems	I-Application
and	O
to	O
support	O
object-oriented	B-Language
programming	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
OMT	O
was	O
developed	O
as	O
an	O
approach	O
to	O
software	B-Application
development	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OMT	O
is	O
a	O
predecessor	O
of	O
the	O
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
(	O
UML	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
OMT	O
modeling	O
elements	O
are	O
common	O
to	O
UML	B-Language
.	O
</s>
