Examples of applications of MDA

[HS Thomas]

Any examples of MDA.
It's application in Eclipse is well known. Are there any other real applications especially business-type applications, perhaps in Accounting packages that we ought to be aware of.. OK, I've just seen the MDA issues thread which provides some answers.
Is there such a thing as an MDA developer ? And how does their work differ from work by other developers ?
Could have knocked me for six when someone asked for MDA-cognisant developers!
Thanks
[ April 20, 2004: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[Lasse Koskela]

It's application in Eclipse is well known.

Huh?

Is there such a thing as an MDA developer ? And how does their work differ from work by other developers ?

I guess you could call it that. Developers who use an MDA tool for specifying an application work mostly with diagrams while "regular" developers work mostly with code. Of course it's not that black and white (regular developers spend the majority of their time doing something else but coding, including sketching UML diagrams, and MDA developers write code in their tools because the graphics simply aren't expressive enough), but that's the main idea.

[Nicholas Cheung]

I know only a little about MDA, however, I am interested in how Eclipse makes use of MDA. Could you explain a bit more?
Thanks.
Nick

[HS Thomas]

Perhaps I am confusing Eclipse Modelling Framework with MDA.
EMF
and EMF Documentation
Perhaps the authors can shed some light ?
[ April 20, 2004: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]

[Lasse Koskela]

Ah. EMF is "just a" library for building modeling applications. MDA is a way of creating software where you specify high-level models and let the tools generate the "executable" for you. It's like code generation on steroids.
I'm very sceptical of MDA so far. We'll see whether MDA really pays off.