Posts under ‘Model Driven Development’

Last week the second Dutch Model Driven Experience conference was held in Amsterdam. The goal of this conference is to stimulate the use of Model Driven Development (MDD) techniques and practices. The program was centered around practical experiences and “lessons learned”.
Two main approaches
In principle two main approaches were presented by different companies. The first [...]

For the 2nd time in history, the Model Driven Experience will take place, this year on June 4th, 2009.
I was there last year, on the 1st edition, and I remember there being a lot of energy and new ideas in the room. As Model-driven Development and MDA is gaining more popularity, and more importantly, [...]

Enterprise Component has a collection of whitepapers relating to SOA and MDA that is bound to be relevant to many of you. Some of the papers are in DOC format, but that should hardly be a barrier. Enterprise Component is a member of http://www.modeldriven.org/.
Take a look at their whitepapers at,
http://www.enterprise-component.com/whitepapers.shtml

UML seems to be a polarizing factor in the software development debates. The Learning LISP blog chimes in with observations on the lack of added value UML brings to the design and development process.

UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior [...]

Peter Friese attended the Model Driven Software Development Today conference and posted a recap with overviews, items and a good deal of images. If you weren’t able to attend, this provides a good overview of what you missed out on.
http://www.peterfriese.de/mdsd-today-2008-recap/

Recently I have come across a number of MDD related blogs suggesting that UML is inadequate to support precise and abstract models, which are a prerequisite for a model-driven development approach.
For example, in his post Microsoft DSLs + UML = ???, arguing against the use of UML as a precise and abstract modelling language, Steven [...]

Last month Gartner published its latest edition of the technology hype cycle, outlining the status-quo on the latest trends in application development. I was happy to find that Gartner rightfully included an emerging trend which they call “Architected Model-driven SODA (Service Oriented Development of Applications)”. Of course Gartner succeeded in introducing a new acronym to [...]

This would probably be a good time to point out that the ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems is coming up. The MoDELS Conference is the followup on the former UML series of conferences.
The MoDELS series of conferences are devoted to the topic of model-driven engineering, covering both languages and [...]

Peter Friese (of itemis AG) responds to a post stating that a higher level of abstraction makes things more complicated.This addresses one of the many common misconceptions about MDD.
Let me give you an example: If you are writing  a software for your HR department, you really shouldn’t need to care about writing getters and setters [...]

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. [...]