Understanding Mda

Understanding MDA Alberto Lagna Alberto.Lagna@whiteBOX.it 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 1

>apropos alberto.lagna • Computer Science graduate, Telco master • Independent consultant, working as software architect / team leader • Consulting on design and development of enterprise systems mainly based on JavaEE. • 15 years of working experience (2 big MDA projects): – IT asset repository in a big bank – MDA tool for software vendor • JUGTorino member • Promoting the use of free software and supporting the open source movement 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 2

The Problem • Business is more demanding – Market ‘mutates’ constantly – New kinds of products needed – fast! – Many new products require new (and innovative) IT solutions • But: – IT platforms also mutate constantly – Legacy systems are tied to legacy platforms – IT has no universal integrating paradigm – So, IT culture is constantly tied up in maintenance and therefore slow to respond to change • Result: – Business-IT relationship under strain – Individual projects have high costs and high risk of failure – Projects not well-coordinated; no reuse 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 3

Contributing Factors • Business does not describe its needs and opportunities in a consistent way • Business and IT speak very different ‘solutioning’ languages • IT does not follow consistent processes for creating, acquiring, integrating and customizing software • IT solutions are standalone; little reuse • Existing layers of legacy software, hardware and ‘muddleware’ compound all of the above. 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 4

Is There a Better Way? • Much more rapid time-to- market • Significantly improved solutions quality • Significantly lower solutions lifecycle costs • End-to-end traceability – requirements to deployment • Improved overall business-IT alignment 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 5

A Different Way of ‘Solutioning’….. Business Requirements Enterprise Reuse Repository New Business Reusable Business Models Model Patterns Reusable New Service Service Model Models Patterns New Implementation Reusable Models Design Model Patterns Deployed Reusable Software Deployed Components Components 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 6

….and, a Different Development Process Business Models Business Analyst Solution Models Solutions Designer Implementation Models Software Designer Deployable Software Software Implementer 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 7

What about MDA? Computationally •Separation of concerns Independent •Multiple viewpoints Model (CIM) Business Analyst •Multi-level reuse •Precise information flows Platform •Full traceability Independent Model (PIM) Solutions Designer Platform Specific Model (PSM) Software Designer Deployable Software Software Implementer 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 8

Why MDA? • Based on proven best practices and open standards • Supported by 900+ OMG members • Widely implemented in commercial and open source tools • Applicable to a wide range of business and computing problems • Highly adaptable to different organizations, project types, toolsets, technologies, etc. • Supports all forms of development and deployment, including outsourcing and off- shoring 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 9

Who is Using MDA? • Government • Financial Services • Aerospace, Defense • E-commerce • Telecomm • Manufacturing • Biomed • ……. (see www.omg.org/mda) 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 10

MDA committed companies 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 11

MDA tool makers Adaptive, Inc. Interactive Objects Software; ArcStyler company providing tools Aonix's Ameos Kabira Technologies, Inc and consulting ARTiSAN's Real-Time Studio KnowGravity's CASSANDRA b+m ArchitectureWare Kennedy Carter Ltd: iUML and iCCG BITPlan GmbH smartGenerator LIANTIS XCoder The Borland Approach to MDA M2VP's MDA Consulting Services CalKey Technologies' Caboom MASTER Project Calytrix Technologies' SIMplicity Mentor Graphics' EDGE UML Suite Codagen Technologies MetaMatrix Commitment Codeless Technology's Codeless Metamaxim's modelscope Consortium for Business Object Promotion MID's Innovator Consyst's REP ++ Studio The MOD Group's MDA Services Compuware OptimalJ Neosight Technologies' BoldExpress Studio Data Access Technologies OCI's MDA Services David Frankel Consulting ObjectFrontier's FrontierSuite Domain Solutions' CodeGenie Outline Systems Inc.'s PowerRAD Dot Net Builders' Constructor Pathfinder Solutions PathMATE EDCubed's TET Plastic Software's Agora Plastic 2005 E2E Bridge realMethods Framework Gentastic's e-GEN Select Business Solutions' Select Component Factory M1 Global Solutions' MDE Mia-Software's Model-In-Action Hendryx & Associates Softaris Pty. Ltd.: MetaBoss Herzum Software SoftMetaWare's Generative Model Transformer project IBM's Rational Software Architect Softeam and Objecteering/UML IKV++ GmbH; m2c(tm) CARE Technologies S.A. / SOSY Inc's OlivaNova Model Execution System I-Logix' Rhapsody (Telelogic) Tata Consultancy Services: MasterCraft innoQ's iQgen Telelogic's TAU Generation2 TechOne's ACE 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 12

MDA tools and frameworks • which one do I have to choose? • which has the best fit to my requirements? • what are my requirements? 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 13

Realistic Concerns • Can it really work at our company? • How much time/money could it save? • Is it really worth the time, cost, effort and risk to implement? • What will the ‘to-be’ state of our organization really look like? • How do we manage/govern our organization’s transition to MDA • How do we get started? 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 14

MDA in a nutshell Computational Business Independent Model Profile ence e fe r r e Business Analyst - aka Analista r a k a ite c tu a rc h Platform Platform Independent Independent Model Profile MDA architect Application Architect - aka Progettista Software Platform Platform Specific Model Specific aka Profile r e fe r p la tf e n c e o rm mapping Code rules Developer - aka Sviluppatore 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 15

MDA in a nutshell READY NOW Computational Business Independent Model Profile Business Analyst - aka Analista Platform Platform Independent Independent Model Profile MDA architect Application Architect - aka Progettista Software Platform Platform Specific Specific Model Profile mapping Code rules Developer - aka Sviluppatore 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 16

MDA in a nutshell READY NOW Platform Independent Model MDA architect Application Architect - aka Progettista Software Platform Specific Profile mapping Code rules Developer - aka Sviluppatore 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 17

PSM static diagrams 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 18

PSM dynamic diagrams 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 19

MDA tool requirements • for YOUR target platform – supports custom metamodels • addresses full lifecycle – metamodels, tranformation, generation • Advanced capabilities – reverse eng, versioning, validation, simulation • integration with tools • standard conformance 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 20

MDA products fulfilling reqs • Commercial – Compuware OptimalJ – IO Arcstyler • Open Source – AndroMDA – OpenArchitectureWare 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 21

Compuware OptimalJ • Metamodels – Domain Model, highest level of abstraction – Application Model, the application architecture – Code Model, the syntactically precise code • Technology patterns – transformation Domain Model -> the Application Model. • Implementation patterns – transformation Application Model ->Code Model. 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 22

Compuware OptimalJ features 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 23

Interactive Objects ArcStyler • Pluggable and fully extensible MDA Cartridges: – Java5 – Web Services (J2EE 1.4 and EJB 2.1) • BEA WebLogic 8.1 • IBM WebSphere 5.1 • JBoss 4 – .NET – web applications • Struts 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 24

AndroMDA • Contains a toolkit for building your own cartridges or customize existing ones • Building blocks of AndroMDA are pluggable and can be exchanged to meet your needs • Validates the input models using OCL constraints which are related to the metamodel classes. • Ready-to-use cartridges for common enterprise architectures (EJB 2/3, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JSF, Axis, jBPM, .NET) 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 25

Open ArchitectureWare • Powerful engine allowing the definition of generator/transformation workflows. – Check, OCL-like language, supporting declarative definition of constraints – Xtend, functional model transformation language – Xpand2, powerful template language – Recipe Framework define validation rules for artefacts created outside of the generator – Xtext Framework define a textual modelling language using a simple BNF-like notation. • Lack of pre-built MetaModels 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 26

What really makes the difference …among the different products – availability of MetaModels to support transformations – speed in updating support for upcoming technologies, standards, approaches – extensibility of MetaModels 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 27

Suggested deepenings • http://www.omg.org/mda • http://mdaforum.soluta.net • M. Guttman - Real life MDA 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 28

Credits • The presentation is based on material produced and with the copyright of The Voyant Group (http://www.thevoyantgroup.com/) 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 29

Q&A Alberto.Lagna@whiteBOX.it 10 october 2008 Understanding MDA n. 30

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Understanding Mda

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