Model driven architecture
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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).
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