How will MDA and UML evolve going forward?
Selic: I think we are in the infancy of modeling languages. UML certainly is the most successful one and the one that perhaps has created the spark that was necessary to fire up this model-driven development approach. I’m sure that we will look back, 20 years [from now], on UML and say it in many ways was rough in spots. The one thing I’m sure of is that modeling language technologies are going to really leap ahead in the coming years. Things like aspect orientation, intentional programming possibly as an even more general thing, will wind their way in there. And we will understand better how to put them into modeling languages and how to make them closer to people because if you’re using UML now, you still have to have a certain degree of specialist knowledge. You have to know what a class is and so on, and maybe some day that kind of stuff will be under the hood rather than straight up. Booch: In the shorter term, we certainly see movement to apply the UML in the area of modeling Web
