Steve Cook's WebLog

My colleague Alan Cameron Wills makes several excellent points about why not to base domain specific languages on UML . I hope Grady Booch reads this. There really is very little common semantic ground between a conveyer belt and anything in UML.

Today I am preparing for a couple of talks about Software Factories that I am giving later in the month to groups of architects in France and Germany. I'm reminded of some material which I often go back to that I discovered about 10 years ago when I joined...

Keith Short’s blog has a report on some of our team’s experiences at OOPSLA this year. I’m back in the UK now, recovering from the jetlag. One aspect of our Software Factories tutorial which I think was particularly interesting was the use of Business...

Today at OOPSLA I participated in a panel session about MDA . We had an interesting debate about what MDA actually is. I suggested that MDA proponents fall into the following three camps. 1. The UML PIM camp: MDA involves the use of UML to build Platform...

I read Alan Wills’ blog about his domain-specific languages tutorial at UML 2004, and it reminded me of some thoughts I had about the difference between a Software Factory and a Package. A Package is a chunk of software that is designed to encompass a...

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I work as an Architect in the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools group within Visual Studio. My immediate colleagues include Keith Short , Jack Greenfield , Stuart Kent , Alan Wills and Gareth Jones . We’re all working hard on making the Software Factories...