Andy Evans, Managing Director, Xactium Limited, UK "Excellent job distilling MDA to its core concept." - Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, coauthor of Generative Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2000) As systems have grown more important for the operations of organizations around the world, so too have the costs associated with building and maintaining them. Enter the model-driven architecture (MDA), a standard framework of the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows developers to link object models together to build a complete system. The result is an application that can be combined with other technologies as well as other applications, and model who became an asset that is to be reused. MDA Distilled MDA standards and accessible introduction to the tools and technology. You will also learn how to determine the model-driven process for projects involving multiple platforms, implement that process, and then test the resulting system. MDA Distilled will help you understand: MDA framework, including platform-independent model (PIM) and platform specific models (PSM) The Meta Object Facility (MOF) - OMG adopted standard for metamodeling Horizontal, vertical, and merging mappings between models Building models of signs and marking Elaborating models, including The resulting model display, and change manually manage the development of model building executable UML executed by Agile MDA Developers and architects can dramatically improve productivity, portability, interoperability, and maintenance with MDA.