Model-Driven Architecture in Practice : A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling

This book introduces all the relevant information required to understand and put Model Driven Architecture (MDA) into industrial practice. It clearly explains which conceptual primitives should be present in a system specification, how to use UML to properly represent this subset of basic conceptual constructs, how to identify just those diagrams and modeling constructs that are actually required to create a meaningful conceptual schema, and how to accomplish the transformation process between the problem space and the solution space. The book combines a sound theoretical approach based on more than 10 years research by the authors with industrial strength and practical software development experience. The approach is fully supported by commercially available tools, and the subsequent software production process is dramatically more efficient than todays conventional software development processes.