Software Chef on MDD

Magnus Jungsbluth weighs in on the pros and cons of using MDD to develop software.

Model driven development is often still seen as gray theory by a lot of people but once you experienced it you never want to go back. A lot of the modern web frameworks like ruby on rails, django, cakephp, grails etc. utilize to some extend code-generation methods borrowed from model driven development. Those frameworks are making these techniques more popular and familiar with developers. Stil, those frameworks focus on providing aid for the mundane tasks like generating O/R mappers and scaffolding user interfaces but are not as extensive as a well-tailored model driven development process which goes far beyond just generating certain artefacts.

http://katastrophos.net/magnus/blog/2008/08/03/is-model-driven-development-faster/