MDE shuffled again
Some background Almost nine months after my last post on this blog. What happened? I got a baby! She’s ten months old now and she has taken a big place … Continue reading
Successful MDA’s drawbacks… A true story #2
Facts This (other) company, uses an MDA/MDD life-cycle since many years.It works fine but… A first problem, funny if you think of it, is that MDA works too well: developers … Continue reading
True story of a MDA paradox
Based on a true return of experience. Facts This company has built an efficient MDA/MDD life-cycle based on UML and a robust MDE tooling. They outsource part of their new … Continue reading
I read the MDA Guide v 1.0.1
Just reading the title of this post you know I’m kidding. This founding OMG’s MDA guide is unreadable by a human being ;D. However, even if skipping a lot of … Continue reading
Lazy modeling (2): laziness attitude
Say that lazy means not going till something’s end. Lazy modeling means doing models that don’t hold all the material they could carry. Say we talk about MDD(a) (What else? ;D), so … Continue reading
The Sustainable MDA Manifesto: 1st draft
Following recent discussions, with MDA and Executable UML OMG’s initiatives in background, here is my proposal for a Sustainable MDA Manifesto. It’s a first draft, so feel free to contribute. … Continue reading
MDA/MDD: Model is not code!?
Following my post on round-tripping, a discussion raised again on “what is model?” on Think in models. Here I try to focus on why “model is not code” in an MDA/MDD … Continue reading
MDA/MDD: don’t round-trip!
In MDE life-cycle, round-trip engineering means ability to update a model based on source code reverse modeling. Funny practice: as the source code is issued from this model during the … Continue reading