An introduction to Model Driven Architecture Part I: MDA and today’s systems Contents: Effective enterprise software development The rationale for modeling MDA in theory IBM and MDA

In recent months many organizations have begun to focus attention on Model Driven Architecture (MDA)1 as an approach to application design and implementation. This is a very positive development for several reasons. MDA encourages efficient use of system models in the software development process, and it supports reuse of best practices when creating families of systems. As defined by the Object Management Group (OMG), MDA is a way to organize and manage enterprise architectures supported by automated tools and services for both defining the models and facilitating transformations between different model types.