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RGen: Ruby Modelling and Code Generation Framework

This article introduces RGen, a modelling framework inspired by openArchitectureWare. RGen uses internal DSLs for defining metamodels and offers a full modelling stack for Ruby.

Martin Thiede
on Feb 20, 2009
Harvesting Service Orientation

In this article, Wil Leeuwis explores lessons that can be learned from a historical perspective when thinking about SOA. He argues there's a lot of old, well understood and practically applied theory that can help us harvesting the profits of the innovation part of the services-world.

Wil Leeuwis
on Nov 22, 2008
Composite Oriented Programming with Qi4j

The goal of modeling domain concepts through objects set by OOP has for a long time been handled in insufficient ways. In this article we introduce the concept of Composite Oriented Programming, and show how it avoids the issues with OOP and reignites the hope of being able to compose domain models with reusable pieces.

Rickard Öberg
on Nov 19, 2008
8 Reasons Why Model-Driven Approaches (will) Fail

If you want to start building software in a model-driven way you’ll need to devise some methodology based on ideas and practical experiences from others. In this article, Johan shares with us 8 gotchas of Model Driven Engineering. The article contains a rich set of references to help you go further in your investigations.

Johan Den Haan
on Jul 28, 2008
Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture

Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.

Nik Silver Mat Wall
on Jul 22, 2008
Best Practices for Model-Driven Software Development

Model-driven software development no longer belongs to the fringes of the industry but is being applied in more and more software projects with great success. In this article we would like to pass on, based on the experiences we have gathered in the past few years, our contribution to its best practices.

Sven Efftinge Peter Friese Jan Köhnlein
on Jun 25, 2008
Architecture & Design

Architecture as Language: A story

Architecture is often described non-tangible in Word documents or entirely technology-driven. Both are bad, but what can be done? Markus Völter describes how to evolve a language around your architecture, a formal language that as a side effect ends up being a good base for generating important parts of the system.

Markus Voelter
on Feb 27, 2008
SOA Programming Models

Author Boris Lublinksy provides an overview of the dominant programming models that are emerging in the SOA domain including Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Java Business Integration (JBI) and Service Component Architecture(SCA).

Boris Lublinsky
on Oct 26, 2006