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The Model Driven Experience 2009 - a review

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 [...]

The Model Driven Experience 2009

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, [...]

MDD Whitepapers

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 for MDD - oxymoron or marriage made in heaven?

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 [...]

Where MDE and DSL meet

On his blog, Johan den Haan has an interesting standpoint on extending OMG´s MDA standard.
MDE is a broader concept than Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), it adds multiple modeling dimensions and the notion of a software engineering process. While MDA mainly focuses on technical variability by making a difference between platform independent and platform dependent models and [...]

MoDELS 2008

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 [...]

The Future is Model Driven

Hi. With this post I proudly and officially launch this weblog. She will go by the name of “Model Driven Inside” and be 100% dedicated to the topic of Model Driven Engineering (MDE).
The purpose of this blog is to serve the development community by keeping track of relevant news, tools, advancements, best-practices, do’s, don’ts, feeds, [...]