MDA is Language Design and Translation

Speaker: Keith Duddy (DSTC)

When: 10:00, Thursday, 15th January, 2004

Venue: 78-420

Abstract: Since the first profiles for UML were defined, and the first plugins written to generate code skeletons from UML models, the modelling trick of marking up standard models, and the programming trick of traversing those models and outputting code fragments have merged into the paradigm of domain language design and translation. This fact is being realised by OMG standards: The UML is now aligned with the MOF modelling language design standard of OMG, and a new standard for model transformation (a.k.a language translation) is being developed by the leading researchers and tool vendors. This talk contrasts the promise of modelling tools becoming rich a language design and translation toolkit against the danger of allowing the Model Driven Architecture (TM) to be limited to attaching strings to class models which direct opaque code generators.
 

Hospitality: Keith Duddy

Contact: Prof Paul Bailes (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (p.bailes@epsa.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html