David Frankel Consulting

Seminar

MDA^® for Enterprise Computing

Audience: IT executives, IT managers, senior architects, and senior developers

Duration: One day

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of UML^TM notation is helpful but not required.

Abstract: This seminar begins by analyzing how the computer industry over its history has dealt with pressures for widening the scope of automation.  It looks at the pressures to widen the scope of automation that IT departments are dealing with currently.  It then introduces the various elements of Model Driven Architecture^® (MDA), and shows how MDA can contribute toward alleviating the pressures.  It demonstrates that MDA builds on previous advances such as enterprise architecture, multi-tiered distributed systems, component-based development, design patterns, and so on.  It also examines the relationship between MDA and Extreme Programming.

Outline:

   Pressure and Progress
      Challenges Facing the Software Industry
      The Viability Variables
      Machine-Centric Computing
      Application-Centric Computing
      Enterprise-Centric Computing
      Pressures on Enterprise-Centric Computing
   How MDA Helps Deal With the Pressures
      Bringing Model-Centrism to Intermediate Tiers, EAI and B2Bi
      Syntactic Abstraction vs. Semantic Abstraction
      B2Bi and MDA
      Flexibility in Choosing the Abstraction Level
      EAI and MDA
      The Limits of Declarative Specification
      Metadata Integration
      MDA and Component Based Development
      Automatic Pattern Replication
      Pushing More Below the Line
      Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture
      Standardized MDA-Based Modeling Languages
      Synchronizing Among Multiple Tiers
      Middleware and the Abstraction Gap
      Design by Contract Revisited
      MDA and Other New Development Approaches

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