Month: March 2011

Model Driven Engineering
Modeling

Should MDA be the Holly Grail of Agile Manifesto?

- 2011/03/23

OK, I’m in a teasing mood… But let’s take the four Agile Manifesto values and have a look on MDA(*)  through these values. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools The fact is that tools have a huge importance in MDA. Individuals, even interacting well, will not succeed if MDA tools don’t work (modeler and model-to-code

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IS Modernization
Model Driven Engineering
Modeling

Path from ADM to MDA

- 2011/03/11

The Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM)(*) approach to migration projects follows a three steps workflow: Full source code reverse modeling, Model transformation from source architectural  model to target architectural model, Target code generation combining target architectural model generation and algorithmic source code conversion to target programming language. The Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach to application development projects

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IS modernization process vs target architecture

- 2011/03/08

Question is: in an ADM automated process, has the target architecture definition to be part of the process? Or has it to be (pre)defined regarding enterprise architectural IT plan? Answer is: both but enterprise business needs rank first. In an ADM process, a transformation path has to be found from the source code to the

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