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New blog dedicated to modeling languages

Last month, Jordi Cabot launched a new portal, fully dedicated to model-driven development. When asked to describe the goal of his blog, Jordi explains:
“The goal of this portal is to explore and discuss /when/, /where/ and /how/ modeling and modeling languages (and when NOT) can improve the current software development practice. I hope to involve [...]

CA launches MDD platform

John K. Waters of Application Development Trends covers CA´s move to enter the MDD arena.
CA’s latest release of its Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
Plex is a multiplatform, model-driven development (MDD) environment that includes architectural and design objects known as patterns, [...]

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 [...]