MDA explained : the model driven architecture : practice and promise Upplaga 1

Introduction. Who Should Read This Book. How This Book Should Be Used. Typeface Conventions. Information on Related Subjects. Book Support and Example Implementation. Acknowledgments. 1: The MDA Development Process. Traditional Software Development. The Productivity Problem. The Portability Problem. The Interoperability Problem. The Maintenance and Documentation Problem. The Model Driven Architecture. The MDA Development Life Cycle. Automation of the Transformation Steps. MDA Benefits. Productivity. Portability. Interoperability. Maintenance and Documentation. MDA Building Blocks. Summary. 2: The MDA Framework. What Is a Model? Relationships between Models. Types of Models. Business and Software Model. Structural and Dynamic Models. Platform Independent and Platform Specific Models. The Target Platforms of a Model. What is a Transformation? Transformations between Identical Languages. The Basic MDA Framework. Examples. Public and Private Attributes. Associations. Summary. 3: MDA Today. OMG Standards. OMG Languages. OMG Language and Transformation Definitions. UML as PIM Language. Plain UML. Executable UML. UML-OCL Combination. Tools. Support for Transformations. Categorizing Tools. Development Processes. Agile Software Development. Extreme Programming. Rational Unified Process (RUP). Summary. 4: Rosa's Application of MDA. Rosa's Breakfast Service. The Business. The Software System. Applying the MDA Framework. The PIM and PSMs. The PIM to PSM Transformations. The PSM to Code Model Transformations. Three Levels of Abstraction. The PIM in Detail. Summary. 5: Rosa's PIM to Three PSMs. The PIM to Relational Transformation. The PIM to EJB Transformation. A Coarse Grained EJB Model. The Transformation Rules. The PIM to Web Transformation. The Transformation Rules. The Communication Bridges. Summary. 6: Rosa's PSMs to Code. Relational Model to Code Transformation. EJB Model to Code Transformation. Some Remarks on EJB Code. The Transformation Rules. The Web Model to Code Transformation. The Structure of the Web Code. The Transformation Rules. Summary. 7: More on Transformations. Desired Features of Transformations. Controlling and Tuning Transformations. Manual Control. Conditions on Transformations. Transformation Parameters. Additional Information. Traceability. Incremental Consistency. Bidirectionality. Implications on Transformations. Transformation Parameters. Persistent Source-Target Relationship. Transformation Rules as Objects. Summary. 8: Metamodeling. Introduction to Metamodeling. The Four Modeling Layers of the OMG. Layer M0: The Instances. Layer M1: The Model of the System. Layer M2: The Model of the Model. Layer M3: The Model of M2. Getting Rid of the Layers. The Use of Metamodeling in the MDA. The Extended MDA Framework. Summary. 9: Defining Your Own Transformations. Transformations Definitions Revisited. The Transformation Definition Language. Requirements for a Transformation Rule. A Notation for Transformation Rules. Transformation Definitions. Example Transformation Definitions. Public and Private Attributes. Associations. Classes. Finishing the Transformation Definition. The Complete MDA Framework. Summary. 10: Rosa's Transformation Definitions. The UML to Relational Mapping. Transformation Rules for UML to Relational Model. Completion of the Relational Model. The UML to EJB Mapping. Additional Operations. The UML to Web Mapping. Summary. 11: OMG Standards and Additional Technologies. Introduction. The MOF. yMOF Tools. The Role of the MOF in MDA. Query, Views, and Transformations. UML. The UML Metamodel. The Role of UML in MDA. OCL. Using OCL with UML. Using OCL with the MOF. The Role of OCL in MDA. The UML Action Semantics. CWM. UML Profiles. The Role of Profiles in MDA. Summary. 12: The MDA Promise. The MDA Paradigm Shift. A Historic Perspective. A Shift of Focus. Too Good to Be True? The Development Process. The Tools. The Modeling Languages. Summary. Appendix A: Glossary. Appendix B: The Code for Rosa's System. The SQL Code for Rosa's System. The EJB Code for Rosa's System. The JSP Code for Rosa's System. Bibliography. Index. 032119442XT04072003