MDA MDD MDE MDSD MDSE: help!
| 11 June 08 - 14:26 |
Model Driven Software Development is becoming a hot topic today (again!). I recently visited the Model Driven Experience with lots of presentations about practical use of model driven techniques and proof-of-concepts using MDA. One of the presentations had a nice introduction about the confusion among all the different acronyms related to model driven approaches. They had a discussion about whether to use MDA or MDSD. Their solution was really nice...
A couple of acronyms related to Model Driven Software Development are:
- MDA: Model Driven Architecture
- MDD: Model Driven Development
- MDE: Model Driven Engineering
- MDSD: Model Driven Software Development
- MDSE: Model Driven Software Engineering
Which one do we need? Which is the best approach? The ultimate question: MD..?
Luckily we know the answer to the ultimate question, we know the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. It's 42.
Translating this answer into a human understandable format using an ASCII table (from decimal to a character) we get *. So the ultimate solution is: MD*.
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I guess I can write the same post for SOA. Think about SOA, SOE, SOBA, eSOA, SOMF, etc.
Somehow we like acronyms...
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If you know other acronyms related to MD* or SO*, feel free to post them!
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two comments:
Hi Johan
how do you see the MDA converging with EDA (Event Driven Architecture)? or do you not??? and further with SOA ???
...since we all love these 3 letter acronyms very much 
would love to see a thread starting on this from you…cheers, ram
Ram Ramdas (URL) - 30 06 08 - 11:02
Hi Ram,
I think MDE is essential for implementing the services (or SOBA’s) in a SOA for making the promises (flexibility, business-IT alignment, etc.) of a SOA come true. See http://www.theenterprisearchitect.eu/arc.. for my vision on SOA, SOBA and how to implement them.
I think EDA can be part of such an architecture by implementing analytical services enabling CEP. But this of course depends on your definition of EDA ;)
Johan den Haan () (URL) - 02 07 08 - 13:53
