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EFx Factory Futures

Well, its time to (officially) announce the end of further development of the EFx Factory prototype! and open a new chapter on software factories for our customers. [In actual fact, not really hot-off-the-press news, this post has been pending getting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:50 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

FAQ - How does EFx Factory differ from the Web Service Factory?

Naturally, I get asked this all the time. What are the differences between the 'EFx Factory' and software factories such as the 'Web Service Software Factory' from patterns & practices? [Now, I do need to say this, I do work closely with the patterns Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:50 AM by jezzsa | 3 Comments

FAQ - Isn't that MDA?

Considering the EFx Factory and its core composability features with extensible technology-independent models, a few astute people soon get around to asking the following question: Isn't the EFx Factory just another implementation of MDA? Backgrounder Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:01 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

Multiple or Single Architectural Models/Views?

This was to be a FAQ, but due to the fact that the practices around this are unproven yet, there is no definitive answer to this question, rather a discussion of approaches, issues, guidelines and raising general awareness. At the moment, there is quite Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:30 PM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

FAQ - Round-Tripping

The first question I always get asked: Do you support round-tripping of the generated code your factory creates ? In other words, do you support a developer going into the generated code, modifying it in an arbitrary way, and then read back those code Read More...
Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 8:39 PM by jezzsa | 0 Comments

FPM - Case Study Part 2

Edward and myself have made some major headway on exploring and validating some experimental tooling for the authoring factories with the 'Factory Product Model ' using the p&p Service Factory as a test case. This work is based upon learnings harvested Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:00 PM by jezzsa | 0 Comments

The 'Meta-Model' and its relationship to the 'Factory Schema'

In the previous article, I talked about the power of the factory meta-model, and why you should have one in your factory. In this article, I want to describe how the meta-model is related to the factory schema, and how that can benefit both the factory Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:41 AM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

The Factory 'Meta-Model'

Hopefully in previous posts I have been able to help de-mystify what exactly the factory schema is and how you should be thinking about it. If you are still confused about how to build a factory and how to create the factory schema, you are not alone. Read More...
Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 10:31 PM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

The EFx Architectural Guidance Software Factory - Recently Published Article

Just a link to the article, as it does'nt appear in the blog roll: http://blogs.msdn.com/jezzsa/articles/677177.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:35 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

The EFx Architectural Guidance Software Factory

Published on MSDN here Summary The Enterprise Framework Factory (the EFx Factory) is an architectural-guidance software factory. It provides Microsoft partners with a software-factory implementation of the Microsoft Distributed Architecture for .NET Applications Read More...
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 11:40 PM by jezzsa | 12 Comments

The Web Service Software Factory (Service BAT)

Very recently p&p announced the 'Web Service Software Factory' (formerly the 'Service BAT') to the public community ( official announcement here ). The name is still not nailed down yet, but its drawing in close. A number of us in the community have Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:41 PM by jezzsa | 2 Comments

The EFx Software Factory

Its been a while since I talked about progress on EFx and its factory. We have got to a point now where we can start to demonstrate the factory and how it operates. We still have some way to go to complete the implementation of the finer details, but Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 8:44 PM by jezzsa | 0 Comments

EFx - An Architectural Guidance Package

Its flattering to hear from a well respected authority and author in the field of Software Factories, that EFx and its toolkit is in fact a Software Factory. Now, I don't fully understand what it means to be a whole software factory, even though I understand Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:10 PM by jezzsa | 1 Comments

EFx - On the face of it

Its a pretty exciting time at present for the future of EFx and its toolkit. We are developing a toolkit for the framework, the one piece that has been missing for some time. What's really exciting is the vision that this toolkit delivers. Its a bold Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:57 PM by jezzsa | 0 Comments
 
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