"Concret" is a web-base model editor which can be configured for different DSLs by providing a metamodel and optional concrete syntax definition in HTML/CSS. Models are created mainly by typing text in the browser, using autocompletion, constraint checks, etc. They are exchanged in JSON format with any backend, e.g. via AJAX.

Project on github: http://github.com/mthiede/concrete
Screencast: http://vimeo.com/9164… Continue

I have an article in the Jan 2010 issue of Software Tech News available at www.softwaretechnews.com. The entire issue is devoted to Model-Driven Development.

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
This principle applies to many areas, e.g. "80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients" or "80% of your employee performance evaluation will come from just 20% of the items on your daily To-Do list"

What the rule tells us is that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many(80 percent) are trivial, and thus, to improve your productivity, you should… Continue

I have finally released my software and set it to production/stable. So when one has to do with prototyping and database applications, please review. Now printing has been added as an important business task.

To use the UML modelling feature, please download BoUML at http://bouml.free.fr and don't forget to donate :-)

The UML tool is used for the model driven aspect as an input but also I can reverse engineer, thus output to UML and then start MDA /MDSD for existing database schemas to get sim… Continue

Well - waddaya know...

So I created this other blog to post this article on using MDSD techniques as an alternative to XML config files:
Xtext Spring Demo