The Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is slowly but surely gathering momentum. It's gaining adherents for several reasons, but probably the most important is that every large company faces serious enterprise application integration (EAI) problems, and MDA offers a solution. In essence, the solution lies in making various metamodels conform to a common meta-metamodel (the Meta-Object Facility, or MOF) so that specific metamodels can easily arrange to exchange data. Each specific metamodel defines a mapping to MOF.
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Paul Harmon is an internationally known business consultant, technology analyst, and thought leader with a focus on applying new technologies and methodologies to real-world business problems. He began his career in artificial intelligence (AI) with the publication of his popular book, Expert Systems: AI for Business (coauthored with David King in 1983). As a decades-long Cutter Expert, Mr. Harmon authored various Cutter journals, including … Read More
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