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| Figures | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Organization of This Book | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Raising the Level of Abstraction | |
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| Raising the Level of Reuse | |
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| Design-Time Interoperability | |
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| Models as Assets | |
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| MDA Terms and Concepts | |
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| Models | |
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| Metamodels and Platforms | |
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| Mapping Between Models | |
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| Marking Models | |
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| Building Languages | |
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| Model Elaboration | |
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| Executable Models | |
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| Agile MDA | |
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| Building an MDA Process | |
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| Executing an MDA Process | |
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| Building Models | |
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| Why Model? | |
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| Abstraction, Classification, and Generalization | |
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| Subject Matter and Language Abstraction | |
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| Model Projections | |
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| Models and Platforms | |
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| Using Models | |
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| Building Metamodels | |
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| Why Metamodels? | |
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| Metamodels | |
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| The Four-Layer Architecture | |
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| MOF: A Standard For Metamodeling | |
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| Using Metamodels | |
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| Building Mappings | |
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| Why Mappings? | |
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| An Informal Example | |
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| Mapping Functions | |
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| Query, Views, and Transformations (QVT) | |
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| Scenarios for Mappings | |
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| Refining Mappings | |
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| Abstracting Mappings | |
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| Representing Mappings | |
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| Migrating Mappings | |
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| Merging Mappings | |
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| Merging Mappings for Weaving | |
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| Using Mappings | |
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| Building Marking Models | |
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| Why Marks? | |
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| Marks and Marking Models | |
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| Applying Marks and Marking Models | |
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| Relating Marks and Model Elements | |
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| Other Marks | |
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| Mark and Marking Model Implementations | |
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| The Theory of Marking Models | |
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| Using Marks | |
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| Building Languages | |
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| Why Build a Language? | |
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| Who Defines a Language? | |
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| What's In a Language? | |
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| Building a Language Using MOF | |
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| Building a Language Using Profiles | |
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| Stereotypes | |
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| Constraints | |
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| Building Graphical Notations | |
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| Using Languages That You've Built | |
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| Elaborating Models | |
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| Why Elaborate Models? | |
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| Managing Manual Changes to Generated Models | |
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| Reversibility of Mappings | |
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| Incorporating Legacy Code | |
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| Using Elaboration | |
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| Building Executable Models | |
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| Why Executable Models? | |
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| Executable UML | |
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| The Execution Model | |
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| Translating Models | |
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| Model Compilers | |
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| Using Executable UML | |
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| Agile MDA | |
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| Why Agile MDA? | |
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| Agile Methods | |
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| Models, Models, Models | |
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| Design-Time Interoperability Revisited | |
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| Using Agile MDA | |
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| Building an MDA Process | |
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| Why Build an MDA Process? | |
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| How to Approach the Problem | |
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| Charting the MDA Process | |
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| Identifying Models | |
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| Identifying the Metamodels and Marking Models | |
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| The Long and the Short of Mapping Chains | |
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| Constraint Propagation and Verification | |
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| Using an MDA Process | |
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| Executing an MDA Process | |
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| Formalizing Knowledge | |
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| Gathering Requirements | |
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| Abstracting Solutions | |
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| Modeling | |
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| Testing the Model | |
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| Building Bridges | |
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| Specifying Mapping Functions | |
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| Marking the Models | |
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| Verifying the Mappings | |
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| Transforming the Models | |
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| An Example Model-Driven Process | |
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| Iterating the Process | |
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| Testing the System | |
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| Executing an MDA Process | |
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| The Future of MDA | |
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| Why Not MDA? | |
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| The Importance of Standards | |
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| Building a Tool Chain | |
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| Working with Models-as-Assets | |
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| Beyond UML | |
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| Back from the Future | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |