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{{quotation | Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach that its sponsor, the Object Management Group (OMG)[1], officially launched in 2001. MDA supports model-driven engineering of software systems. MDA provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. The MDA approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model (PIM) using an appropriate Domain Specific Language. Then, given a Platform Definition Model (PDM) corresponding to CORBA, DotNet, the Web, etc., the PIM is translated to one or more platform-specific models (PSMs) that computers can run.}} ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture Wikipedia], retrieved 19:59, 28 June 2007 (MEST). | {{quotation | Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach that its sponsor, the Object Management Group (OMG)[1], officially launched in 2001. MDA supports model-driven engineering of software systems. MDA provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. The MDA approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model (PIM) using an appropriate Domain Specific Language. Then, given a Platform Definition Model (PDM) corresponding to CORBA, DotNet, the Web, etc., the PIM is translated to one or more platform-specific models (PSMs) that computers can run.}} ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture Wikipedia], retrieved 19:59, 28 June 2007 (MEST). | ||
'''Model driven architecture''' is a model-driven engineering (MDE) approach that uses three types of models: | |||
# '''CIM''' - computation independent model that describes how a system should be behave in terms of a language that is appropriate for a user (e.g. an educational designer, a business analyst, etc.) | |||
# '''PIM''' - platform independent model that describes a CIM in computational terms, i.e. a language that makes sense to a given class of computer persons but is independent from specific computer technology | |||
# '''PSM''' - platform specific model that links PIM specification with specific information about a specific platform and it should be executable. | |||
== Standards == | == Standards == | ||
Latest revision as of 14:46, 19 April 2010
Definition
“Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach that its sponsor, the Object Management Group (OMG)[1], officially launched in 2001. MDA supports model-driven engineering of software systems. MDA provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. The MDA approach defines system functionality using a platform-independent model (PIM) using an appropriate Domain Specific Language. Then, given a Platform Definition Model (PDM) corresponding to CORBA, DotNet, the Web, etc., the PIM is translated to one or more platform-specific models (PSMs) that computers can run.” (Wikipedia, retrieved 19:59, 28 June 2007 (MEST).
Model driven architecture is a model-driven engineering (MDE) approach that uses three types of models:
- CIM - computation independent model that describes how a system should be behave in terms of a language that is appropriate for a user (e.g. an educational designer, a business analyst, etc.)
- PIM - platform independent model that describes a CIM in computational terms, i.e. a language that makes sense to a given class of computer persons but is independent from specific computer technology
- PSM - platform specific model that links PIM specification with specific information about a specific platform and it should be executable.
Standards
The MDA model is related to multiple standards, including:
- UML
- Meta-Object Facility (MOF) (Wikipedia)
- XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) (Wikipedia)
- Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (Wikipedia), a UML profile.
In education
- See ModX for an example
Links
- Model-driven architecture (Wikipedia)
- Model-driven engineering (Wikipedia)
- Planet MDE - Model Driven Engineering