The MDA Journal: Model Driven Architecture Straight From The Masters

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is one of the most important technological developments affecting how enerprise-class information systems will be concieved, designed and built. Featuring the IBM MDA Manifesto, and the Cook-Guttman debate on the Microsoft and OMG approaches to model-driven systems. This book brings together some of the best minds to reflect on the role and value of MDA. In its pages you will find the essential discussions straight from the MDA masters: Oliver Sims, Stephen Mellor, David Frankel, Jorn Bettin, Steve Cook, Mike Rosen, Michael Guttman, Patrick Hayes, Elisa Kendall, Deborah McGuinness, Alan Brown, Bran Selic, Sridhar Iyengar, James Rumbaugh and Grady Booch.

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By Paul Harmon, Editor, Business Process Trends - January 10, 2005

Dave Frankel is a consultant and has played a major role in the development of the Object Management Group's standards. He has served for many years on the OMG's Architecture Board, and recently, he has been especially active in helping create the framework for the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standard. In 2003 Frankel authored the widely respected introduction to MDA, Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing. (Wiley, 2003).

In September of 2003, Dave started editing a column for BPTrends (www.bptrends.com) called MDA Journal. Each month he either wrote a column or edited someone else's article on some aspect of MDA. Column hardly describes the articles, since many ran to 15 pages and explored specific aspects of MDA in considerable depth. The MDA Journal rapidly evolved into one of the most popular monthly publications on BPTrends, and was the host of several ground-breaking statements on MDA, including the first official statement by... read more