Model-driven architecture

Model-driven architecture is a software design methodology, proposed and sponsored by the Object Management Group.

The basic idea is that the system functionality is defined as a platform-independent model, using an appropriate specification language and then translated to one or more platform-specific models for the actual implementation. To accomplish this goal, the MDA defines an architecture that provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. The translation between platform-independent model and platform-specific models is normally performed using automated tools.

The MDA model architecture relates multiple standards, including Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Meta-Object Facility (MOF), the XML Metadata interchange (XMI), and the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). Note that the term “architecture” in MM does not refer to the architecture of the system being modeled, but rather to the architecture of the various standards and model forms that serve as the technology basis for MDA.

Object Management Group holds trademarks to several similar terms including Model Driven Application Development, Model Based Application Development, Model Based Programming, and others.[1]

See also

• code generation
• configuration management
• CoSMIC
• Generic Modeling Environment
• Graphical Modeling Framework
• Model-driven development

References

• The MDA Journal: Model Driven Architecture Straight From The Masters, Meghan Kiffer, ISBN 0929652258
• David S. Frankel: Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-31920-1
• Chris Raistrick, Paul Francis, John Wright, Colin Carter, Ian Wilkie: Model Driven Architechture With Executable UML, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-53771-1
• Model Driven Architecture, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-28240-8

External links

• Openmdx, an open-source MDA platform. Its authors claim they have developed Opencrx, an open-source CRM software product, in 200 days.
• Tefkat, an Eclipse plugin that implements DSTC's original proposal for a MOF Query/View/Transformation language. Built on IBM's EMF framework, it supports models defined using its native metamodel, Ecore as well as the OMG's EMOF, and the W3C's XML Schema.
• AndroMDA, an open-source MDA platform to generate a J2EE application from UML graphs.
• OMG's MDA Web site
• Code Generation Network
• Understanding the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• Success stories
• tangible architectMDA Tool for .NET