There has been an international MDA Workshop in the Netherlands at the University of Twente (MDAFA 2003): Workshop on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations...
There seems to me to be an inconsistency in what is being said about MDA. Here are two quotes: 1. "[With MDA] Models are testable and simulatable". From a...
I think the distinction here is between executable and non-executable modelling. Soley talks about the MDA vision, in which as far as I have understood...
Ashley, and all, ... are testable and (or should ... comprise. ... models for model validation (see http://www.metamaxim.com/pages/caseStudy1.htm). Actually I...
Aron and all ... Sorry -- I misunderstood. ... I agree. ... Yes -- that's a very valuable part of the process. Very often the scenarios they want to try are...
Hello all, The principles and ideas behind MDA are not new when regarded in isolation. We have had models for a long time. Some type of code generation is...
Hi ... and to aboid a double definition the dependency should therefore be an implicit corrolary of its cause, not the accidental assertion of a diligent...
... else ... tools ... an implicit ... modeller. ... to avoid ... declaration of the ... Do you mean that any assertion of a dependency by modellers is ...
Hi A significant proportion of dependencies are required to overcome the inadequacies of the modelling tool/language/practitioner. Hopefully these will...
Hi Aron ... Could you rephrase this statement. I think I understand what you are saying, however, its not very clear. I would not have drawn an immediate link ...
Hi Aron I am not sure whether these principles are intended to characterise MDA (i.e., if you adhere to these principles, then you are doing MDA) or are...
... conceptually ... are saying, ... link ... what you ... promote ... The principle of separation of concerns says, in my understanding, that we should...
Hi Aron and all. 1. Separation of concerns I agree that this is a very important principle, but I think I also agree with Anthony that "platform specificity"...
... Answered in reply to Ashley. AVA > - explicit dependencies: If anything is dependent on something AVA > else this should be explicitly noted and...
... Ashley has explain well what I could not. This is what I meant, thanks Ashley. ... I agree it is not MDA related specifically. When I was referring to...
Hello again, after a couple of days of inactivity of my side, ... agree with Anthony that "platform specificity" and "level of abstraction" should not be...
... this ... that any ... not ... OK, I agree that traceability to requirements and / or use cases is not definitely a part of MDA. But do you also mean...
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Following up on the discussion about platform specificity vs. level of abstraction, there is a paper that is relevant to this issue. It is available from the...
Hi, please note that this poll is about **current** tools. I know tools implementing the different appproaches except for the last one if you keep in mind that...
Aron and all. ... Perhaps so, but it is still IMHO wrong. To say that Artefact A is more abstract than Artefact B means (I think): 1. Everything that Artefact...
... *business specific*. Good, I'll include this if I make a final list. Of course, new issues bring up more questions... Do you, or others, have ideas how...
<vendor disclosure>I work at Compuware on the OptimalJ product team</vendor disclosure> I went to work for Compuware because I really like their OptimalJ tool....
My view is that the reality of UML 1.4 (and I think still UML 2.0, though to a lesser degree) is that there is no way to completely define the behavioral...
Aron ... These are good questions. ... One specific use of more business specific models is to validate the behaviour of the model by execution prior to...