Table of Contents

Preface. Foreword. PART ONE: INTRODUCING MDA. Pressure and Progress: How We Arrived at This Point. Model Driven Enterprise Computing. PART TWO: THE BASE MDA TECHNOLOGIES. The Role of UML in MDA. Beyond Basic Class Modeling. The Meta Object Facility (MOF). Extending and Creating Modeling Languages. Building Compilable Class Models. Modeling at Different Abstraction Levels. PART THREE: ADVANCED TOPICS. Modeling Transformations with CWM. Additional Advanced Topics. Epilogue: A Reality Check. Appendix A: Sample Transaction Metamodel. Appendix B: Options Trading Concepts. References. Glossary. Index.

About the Author

DAVID S. FRANKEL is Chief Scientist for QuarterSoft, Inc., and previously held senior positions at IONA Tech-nologies and Genesis Development Corporation. He is a renowned expert in the architecture and development of complex, large-scale distributed computing systems. Frankel has served several terms on the OMG Architecture Board.