Chapter 13. The Future of MDA

“Prediction is difficult,” Yogi Berra is reported to have said, “especially about the future.” And so it is, especially with the future of technology. Even so, we're willing to place our reputations in an unattended picnic basket and risk a look at the future of model-driven development.

The value proposition for MDA is that the cost of building and maintaining systems is significantly lower. The combination of the following makes a powerful business argument:

  • Raising the level of abstraction so that people can express themselves and communicate with man and machine alike more productively

  • Raising the level of reuse to a higher level of granularity so that bigger systems can be composed from ever-larger elements ...

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