RE: [AM] What MDA should be - was ANN: Are You Ready For MDA?

At 05:22 PM 3/11/2004, Jason wrote:
>...and that was their first mistake :-)

Likely.  The challenge is that people now need to learn their proprietary 
language, promoting vendor lock in (good for the vendor, not so good for 
everyone else).  The potential benefit is that you're not tied into the 
technology platform, assuming you can get translators to your platform of 
choice.  So, there's a pretty big risk here IMHO, albeit one with 
potentially good payback.

Go in with your eyes open.

- Scott


>
>
>Jason Gorman
>http://www.objectmonkey.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kari Hoijarvi [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 11 March 2004 21:35
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [AM] What MDA should be - was ANN: Are You Ready For MDA?
> >
> > Yes, they introduced action language. The point I'm trying to
> > make is, that they did not extend any OO language.
> >
> > Kari
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Ambler [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > At 02:19 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Jason Gorman [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >
> > > > MDA will work when the code IS the model and the model IS
> > the code.
> > > > That would require OO languages like Java and C# to incorporate
> > > > UML-specific concepts like association end and multiplicity,
> > >
> > >In the MDA vision that Mellor et al see, this is not the case.
> > >Modeler/Programmer does not need to see the target language, ever.
> >
> > Yes, and to do that they needed to introduce a new action
> > semantics language.  You're still programming with their approach.
> >
> > - Scott
> >

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