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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, [...]

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

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/

Earlier this month we covered Bill Gates mentioning the Oslo-project - Microsofts answer to the growing interest in DSLs. Steven Kelly posted an interesting observation on his blog, where he comments on Microsoft’s ideas to combine both UML and DSLs on an implementation level.
Putting UML before DSLs in this way isn’t just putting the cart [...]

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 [...]

As part of his keynote speech at the last TechEd Conference in Orlando, Bill Gates announced Microsoft’s strategy on model-driven development. In fact, he described ‘modeling’ as one of the biggest trends in application development. He explained that Microsoft has been working on a ´unified modeling platform`, code-named “Oslo”, that further integrates Microsoft products Visual [...]