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Chapter 1 ✦ What Is UML?

Applications

For years, businesses have started projects by modeling the business applica-

tion requirements. As the projects proceeded, they fell deeper and deeper into

implementation-dependent modeling, often losing sight of the original business

requirements in the midst of the overwhelming task of working with ever-changing

implementation technologies. As MDA-based development tools become more

widely available, projects can be focused more on the platform independent model

of the business requirements. In fact, the focus throughout the project will remain

on the original requirements while the implementation becomes more and more

automated through the application of platform specific models.

Lest you think that this is a pipe dream, take a look at the list of companies in the

sidebar who are already using this technique successfully. Many more companies

are listed at

www.omg.org/mda/products_success.htm.

Meta-Object Facility (MOF)

The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is at the heart of the MDA strategy along with the

UML, CWM, CORBA, and XMI. It is the starting point, the standard that defines the

languages used to describe systems and MDA itself. The MOF is a metamodel (often

MDA Success Stories

Companies who have applied/are applying MDA include:

✦ Regions Bank of Birmingham, Alabama

✦ Swedish Parliament

✦ Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG

✦ U.S. Government Intelligence Agency

✦ The Open System Architecture for Condition Based Monitoring (OSA-CBM) Project

✦ CGI

✦ ff-eCommerce

✦ Swisslog Software AG

✦ Adaptive; Adaptive Framework

✦ Financial Systems Architects

✦ Headway Software; Headway review

✦ IKV++ GmbH; m2c(tm)

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