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 approach is fully supported by commercially available tools.
"This book describes a method that will allow software engineers to focus on the problem that really matters, namely understanding the requirements of information systems and their applications. The method is supported by a tool that generates production-quality code from a conceptual model. The book does an excellent job of explaining the underlying philosophy and practical applications of OO-Method." --Prof. Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
"Whether you are an executive leading the software development life cycle in your organization, a manager leading a development team, or a software engineer developing software, this book will help you to effectively and efficiently incorporate a complete model-driven approach of software development into your software practices. Complete because all major aspects of software development are covered, even user interface which is not covered by UML. For me, this book is a must!" --Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt , Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium
"This book offers both a rigorous academic treatment of conceptual modeling as a precursor to full code generation and a practitioner s insights into realizing this dream. (...) See what can be done by a real collaboration between academia and industry." --Prof. Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia