What is Model Driven Architecture (MDA)?
MDA is an industry architecture proposed by the OMG that addresses full life cycle application development, data, and application integration standards that work with multiple middleware (CORBA, J2EE), languages, and interchange formats. MDA unifies some of the industry best practices in software architecture, modeling, metadata management, and software transformation technologies that allow a user to develop a modeling specification once and target multiple technology implementations by using precise transformations/mappings. An example of the use of MDA is to use a UML model representation of a tool or application and to use this model to automate (some or all) of the Java interface, implementation, as well as any XML serialization for the modeled objects. Many of the recent OMG standards such as UML, MOF, and CWM were developed using MDA principles of using abstract models (these are also referred to as Platform Independent Models – PIM) which can be mapped to Platform Specific Mode
