I'm architect on a heavy facturation system for a major company since last year. The project federates a lot of legacy systems into a modern J2EE architecture. After reviewing nearly everything in the field of code generation, I settled for AndroMDA, which was in the early 3.0 development stages at that time.
The reasons for which I choosed AndroMDA were: - ability to make the development process flow from UML downwards (Hey, it's MDA) - rationalization of the process with UML and an homogeneous platform, which is a big plus when developers are contractors from a number of companies, using their own systems and tools (I use GNU/Linux, others use windoze or Mac, for example) - J2EE integration with the default cartridges - free software, which implies possibility of fixing bugs on the spot (in addition, AndroMDA developers are extremely reactive and enthusiasts, which helps greatly) and possiblity of customizing for the project peculiarities, which were quite numerous in this case The learning curve is not so easy, but generally, it took around two weeks for a developer to get used to the process. Given that a lot of developers were working on a J2EE project for the first time, I consider it being pretty fast. Let's say that for seasoned J2EE professionals, it would take a few days, maybe a week at most. More important, the project was finished on schedule, despite the preliminary "functional requirements" and "functional specifications" stages being weeks late. This is a tremendous achievement, it can be credited to the enormous motivation of the members of the team, but also to the contribution of the rational development framework AndroMDA is offering, which allowed to generate nearly all of the boring code base, letting developers concentrating on the interesting, business-oriented, part. Currently, we're in a post-release period, new requirements are being implemented fast, and I'm migrating the framework to the AndroMDA 3.1 release, which looks even more promising. I'm thinking of giving back to AndroMDA by collaborating on the EJB cartridge, as soon as time permits. Thanks a lot to Chad Brandon, Wouter Zoons and the other AndroMDA development team members, which are extremely helpful despite their own professional hurdles.[/list] _________________________________________________________ Reply to the post : http://galaxy.andromda.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2524#2524 Posting to http://forum.andromda.org/ is preferred over posting to the mailing list! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
