Domain-specific modeling promises to change the modeling landscape by providing a greater level of abstraction from code than UML, providing modeling constructs for developers that mimic the real-world objects more closely, and most importantly, providing complete code-generation capabilities, which together lead to a much more productive way for developers to model applications.
by Dr. Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
Here's an interesting coincidence: The "UML Conference", where I delivered the keynote speech a few days ago, changed its name to "MoDELS & UML." Similarly, the "UML &
Design World" conference where I spoke a few weeks ago was previously
called "UML World." The fact that both these leading conferences have
changed their name indicates a big shift in the modeling world that may
well lead us away from the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the
Unified Modeling Language. One of the new approaches causing this shift
is called Domain-Specific Modeling, DSM for short. In this first of a
series of articles I will introduce DSM with a short example. Later
articles will provide the opportunity to dive a little deeper into the
subject, compare it to other approaches, identify characteristics of
areas where DSM makes most sense and, of course, show real world
examples from the software industry.
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