January 2011 Blog Posts (5)

In the beginning [1], I chose the word group "model-driven", which inspired by the concept of “parameter-driven” and “table-driven” in software development. Some the properties would be stored in a parameter-table that can be modified at almost any time, which will be accessed and interpreted at run-time or load-time, and thereby, be able to meet some the specific requirements of the end customers.

Relative to the enterprise and business which dynamically changing, "parameters"…

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The subject is the software or information systems used in enterprise. It is comprehensive, need to support the management and the general business in enterprise, often referred generally as enterprise application or some times, I prefer the term of enterprise information system. In this essay, uses the Enterprise Applications and EntApps for short.

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Two posts (courtesy of  Ed Seidewitz ) talk about:

 

-The long journey to get an Action Language as part of the UML standard: http://modeling-languages.com/blog/content/uml-action-language-omg-journey

 

- The new standards fUML and Alf:  http://modeling-languages.com/blog/content/new-executable-uml-standards-fuml-and-alf

 

Hope you find them interesting  

 

 

 

All "cognition is cognition in models and by models"
by Herbert Stachowiak, 1973

The human spirit is unable to think other ways than in models.
by Christian Wissel, 1989

Thought is the activity or process of modeling, which the evolution of models in brain. Ideas, as the content for cognition, which are models. A person thereby is a Model-Driven System.

In the world of SAP ABAP, we have millions of lines of codes used by gaint organizations across the globe. Sadly the customers cannot use the software as-is and have to write more than 1/3 rd of the code on their own to meet the requirements of their business processes. 

With one SAP face that sells the license we have an army of technical consultants to write these code.

 

The sad part is that within SAP or any partner organization the story is not different, we still…

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