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Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools Review by Petr Hejda
Interesting topic, the writing a bit confusing
I have been following Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and model-driven development for some time. Software Factories (SF) seem to be one of the first development process framework that leverages DSLs. What I have expected from this book is to describe the relationship between the two.
The book does a very good job at describing the intentions behind DSLs (good job Steve and Stuart). The SF portion is less digestible. Often wordy, with long tedious lists of barely related facts. I feel the author wanted to cover as much of the field as possible. Still, I got lost several times in the details.
The formatting of the book does not help either. Please, use numbered sections! Many times, I did not know if this is a detail of previous section, or a completely new one.
Probably my major complaint is the missing link between the DSLs and SF. I just did not get it. Still, the book is very worth reading.