Questions regarding MDA

From: Ashima Goswamy (ashimag_at_bolt.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: 26 Oct 2004 02:08:48 -0700

I am a newbie, trying to make sense of MDA. Afte going thorugh a
couple books on MDA and some websites, I have a few questions:

* How is model transformation any different than the conventional
old-fashioned code generators? especially, the PSM to code
transformation?
* Is executable UML a reality or just a pipe dream? Are there any
tools that demonstrate executable UML capabilities?
* Any transmformation (mapping) rule will not know the finer points of
code generation. For example, given a class in the PIM, how does the
transformation engine (or whatever it is called) know whether to add a
no-args public constructor, or otherwise, in the PSM.

Thanx.

...Ash

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