Information technology systems architects, senior information technology scientists, research staff especially in the telecommunications domain.
Research and development engineers involved in the OMG standardisation process around all issues relating to Model Driven Architecture
The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) being a rather young approach to information systems modelling, development, deployment and operation promises a number of improvements in systems integration especially for very large information systems as those found at telecom operators’ and service providers’ infrastructures.
This document gives an overview of the state of the art technologies that play a key role in the MDA space of discourse and briefly analyses and assesses them. As such this document is a useful reference technology guide to anyone interested in the MDA approach.
It covers modelling foundations describing notions such as viewpoint, abstraction level and meta-modelling and explains to some extend the main concepts. Furthermore it covers modelling techniques such as the Unified Modelling Language (UML), the Meta Object Facilities (MOF) and others, as well as platform technologies such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), the CORBA Component Model (CCM), etc. Finally it includes a description of the landscape of available tools supporting MDA, and states requirements for tool support with respect to business modelling, model transformation, artefact generation and legacy integration.
The document can safely claim that it covers the main industry activities and offerings, although it obviously cannot claim completeness.
Editor: Mariano Belaunde, France Télécom
Contact: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, gavras@eurescom.de
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