- Title
- The model driven architecture : No easy answers
- Creator
- Pokorny, Timothy
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/54473
- Identifier
- vital:1545
- Abstract
- The problems involved in the development of distributed simulation are varied and many. Solving these problems has been the topic of much research with one particular approach proving to be extremely popular: the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Proposed by the Object Management Group (OMG), the MDA has been promoted as the cure to all the problems facing modern software development. Targeting the complexity of current software development techniques, the MDA is advertised as an evolutionary shift in the way software is created. Despite the bountiful and vivid claims made in the many corners of industry and academia, the MDA provides no easy answers. With a flavour distinctly reminiscent of the push towards CASE tools that occurred through the 1980s, to a large extent, the MDA presents to the world a pair of rose coloured glasses through which software development is reduced to an exercise in diagram drawing. While the advantages of such an approach are numerous, it also presents many disadvantages. Where a cure to development complexity is sought, a new form of complexity is introduced. The advantages of the MDA have been documented in numerous works, within both the modelling and simulation community and the wider software development population. This paper seeks to raise awareness of the often-ignored problems involved with the MDA by taking a critical look at the motivation, claims and processes involved.; E1
- Publisher
- Sydney, Australia : SimTect 2005 Organising and Technical Committees
- Relation
- Paper presented at SimTect 2005: Simulation - fulfilling the promise, successes and visions for the road ahead, Sydney, Australia : 9th -12th May, 2005
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Unknown
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Architecture; Information technology
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