Re: MDA/UML/OO and SOA (was Re: [service-orientated-architecture] John on Gartner, AJAX & Assorted TLAs)

[Lukas Barton]

Hello,   I wrote a thesis about MDA (only in Czech, see abstract at http://www.archaebacteria.net/?p=5).   I mean that MDA as described by MDA Guide V1.0.1 and MDA Foundation Model from OMG forces OOAD (Object Oriented Analysis and Design). MDA is now too object oriented.   The main problem is in tools (and you cannot do MDA without tools). I  learned that majority of tools support OOAD (Object oriented analysis and design). Most of them only transforms class models into static object structure. That’s useful. It could save time during developmnet phase. Etc… but does not help with SOA.    OOAD is not enough for SOA. The world is not composed only from objects (object model). There could be another views - service oriented, event oriented, hirearachical or data (document) oriented (mixture possible). Detailed example of OOAD inadequacies for SOA were described at Elements of Service-Oriented Analysis and Design. But there is no Rational for SOA, if you want to do SOA you have to use at least five different tools. I dont know whether does this mean that is too hard to make homogenous tools supporting SOA?     My two cents,          Lukas __._,_.___ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___