Re: [AM] ANN: Are You Ready For MDA?

In a message dated 3/10/2004 3:53:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
The big tool vendors are all pursuing the "soup to nuts" MDA model. I think
that there is a market opportunity for less ambitious tools -- and that this
would both allow smaller tool vendors to enter the market and also allow
organisations interested in MDA to experiment with, and get value from,
model driven approaches without committing themselves to the hilt, in terms
of both money and risk, from the outset.
Like many in this forum, I don't particularly subscribe to the OMG MDA 
approach, but I do find models indispensable in my development work (although I 
often use the term model interchangeably with the word template, and pardon my 
gaucherie, s'il vous plait).  

I tend to agree with your assertion regarding he "soup to nuts" approach, as 
I believe it creates opportunities for distraction, if nothing else. While I 
have not seen many of these tools "in he flesh", those I have seen seem to have 
made their users "slaves" to the tool in a way that often impairs 
flexibility. Keep in mind this observation is entirely subjective: it could be sayng more 
about the users than it is about the tool. 

Also, it is advisable to take my comments in this area with the proverbial 
"ton of salt", as I am myself hardly the most objective of critics: having 
developed my own (very crude) development-assistive tools a long time ago (before 
any others were available), I have spent more time keeping them up-to-date than 
I have identifying and assessing what might be exceptionally useful or 
effective alternatives. (Shame on me!).

Regards,

Pete

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