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For all the tool vendors in this network, if you have a tool that you regard as  a kind of "Executable UML tool", and it's not yet in my list of Executable UML tools: http://modeling-languages.com/list-of-executable-uml-tools/

feel free to leave a comment in the post to get your tool added to the list.

Executable models, as the name implies, are models that are complete and precise enough to be executed. One of the key benefits is that you can evaluate your model very early in the development life cycle. That allows you to ensure the model is generally correct and satisfies the requirements even before you have committed to a particular implementation platform.

One way to perform early validation is to automatically generate a prototype that non-technical stakeholders can play with…

Just a short note.

Programming languages do a 2-way abstraction:



1. from machine level 'upwards', leaving out the technical bits.

2. from (all addressed) problem domains 'downwards', promising that the language constructs provided correspond to the most important real world structures.



In discussions on programming and abstraction, the latter seems a bit underrepresented, although not less…

We conducted an interview with one of of customers for our marketing purposes but some positive statements came out of it about adopting Model Driven Development techniques and specifically UML. I have edited the interview to include just the questions that may be of interest to you...…

Attended Tools Conferences last week, here my brief take-away (from an Analyst's point of view):

ICMT 2011:

Such a more technically influenced subject like M2M Tranformations can contain lots of inspiring single issues, even for an analyst doing more sort of World 2 Model Transformations. Issues like generalisation of generalisation, query/ modeling by example, ...

TOOLS 2011:

1. Is Subjectivity an approach to clarifying "Appliance" of…

This is my first blog post, but one I hope to update regularly. I want to share my experiences with model driven development, code generation, and the entire development life cycle from a practical implementation perspective - getting things to work together on actual implementation projects, helping projects be successful, automating the lifecycle including code generation.

A little about myself and the tools I use...

I work at Walt…

Since this is full of tool vendors (very successful in making more with MDE :-) ) I thought I could share with you that it is now possible to announce your tool/company/service in the modeling languages portal.

Show what you have to offer to a very targeted audience. There’s no confusion here, a visitor of this portal is, at the very least, interested in seeing whether software modeling and model driven engineering could work for him/her so every…

[crossposted here from http://www.hulshout.nl/blog/2011/05/29/language-workbench-competition-2011-code-generation-2011/]

Pfheww.. it's already two days ago that I left Cambridge, after three days of model driven development information overload.

Language Workbench Competition Workshop 2011

On Tuesday, I chaired, together with my beloved egg timer, the…

Model Driven Development proponents see a lot of advantages of using MDD techniques. Higher development speed, increased quality, more cost-effective, empowering less-experienced developers, just to name a few. If you look at these promises the question arises why the whole world isn't using MDD right now? Why don't we hear a lot of MDD success stories?

In a recent article I wrote about some of the…

Hello, everyone.

This is my first time post.

When I make the Requirement Specification , then I often use Use Case diagram, Use Case Description(I often use Sequence Diagram)  ,State Machine Diagram, and more.

But, many people make the Requirement Specification by Natural Language.

And, they share that in Wiki.

# Of course, the tool used by the development domain is different.

They want to change that, they can…

I've posted a few diagrams from a UML user model based on the conference app example a few people used at the conference: http://jtlog.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/conference-user-model/

I would be really interested to know what people think of this approach to UI code generation.

Feature Matrix for Language Workbenches Competition 2011 

http://bit.ly/jZoI9n #…

A personal review on our last edition favorite conference: http://pjmolina.com/metalevel/2011/05/code-generation-2011-a-personal-review

Regards

Pedro J.

#CG2011 Pictures

Hi,

I've posted a quick writeup of the LWC challenge competition highlights presented at the Code Generation main event.

Here is the post:

http://www.modeldrivenstar.org/2011/05/highlights-from-lwc-2011-language.html

Marco

May 24th the first Language Workbench Competition have been held in Cambridge (UK) as a warming-up of the Code Generation conference. The idea for a language workbench competition originates from a group of people during Code Generation 2010. A lot of new initiatives in the field of language workbenches are arising to facilitate the creation of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and their accompanied code generators…

Marina Haase ran a workshop on DSL Evolution at Code Generation 2011 yesterday.

We've uploaded the sessions outputs (as PDF) here:

DSL Evolution at Code Generation 2011