Lofi model @ work

It's quite amazing to see the same things happen again and again... Reinventing the wheel seems is the way in computer science to make things better ;-)  To begin this blog with, which is a comment of the discussion in TSS about Sculptor : The idea of Sculptor is not new, also ArchitectureWare is not new... MDA/MDSD is not new as well... Here are my opinions about Sculptor and AndoMDA and general about MDSD/MDA: (1) I'm a very satisfied user of AndroMDA. AndroMDA is a very good framework for MDSD/MDA and is just comparable with ArchitectureWare. The latter is the framework in which Sculptor is written. (2) Sculptor is comparable with AndroMDA Cartridges , which allow you to generate codes for its reference architecture . AndroMDA offers a lot of production-ready cartridges like: Java (general purpose) EJB, Spring, jBPM (business layer) Struts, JSF (presentation layer) ... And also for .NET! All these cartridges are already available since more than 3 y...

My first book in German language about MDA (Model Driven Architecture) and VOFI (Visualization of Financial Implications) is now available: Anwendungsentwicklung mit Model Driven Architecture – dargestellt anhand vollständiger Finanzpläne This book is my doctor dissertation from the year 2006 and is now published within the series of Advances in Information Systems and Management Science from Logos Verlag Berlin . Cover of the book Contents of the book The good thing is that I will offer a free download for the PDF version - many thanks to Logos Verlag which makes this possible! So, if you can read German, you are welcome to download it ;-) For this purpose I'm searching some sponsors. As soon as I get some sponsors I'll put the PDF version somewhere in the internet. So, stay tuned! If you want to buy it, just order from Logos Verlag Berlin : ISBN 978-3-8325-1480-8 Or go directly to this order site: Order MDA VOFI Book from Logos Verlag Berlin Happy reading! Lof...