Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)

This book is a great book to prevent your organization to suffer from the "not invented here syndrome". Why try to determine what properties there are for specific business objects, when others have already tried and tested this hundreds of times?Time and money saver.

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I like the MDA idea. I'm also a competent UML user. This book was my first book on MDA, but, the title is actually a bit misleading in that the actual core of the book is about the very well though and consistent Archetype Patterns for enterprises.The Archetype idea on its own is something that I think is fundamental for taking MDA to the next level for the enterprise context. If applied consistently and with enabling tools I belive it would make software cheaper and easier to integrate. The problem is that we normally don't start fresh and it is actually very difficult to find tools that not only support MDA with Archetype Patterns, but, also take care of integrating the generated PSMs and code with the existing enterprise applications.But, I digress, the Archetype Patterns idea, the Literate Modeling style used throughout the book and the actual Archetype Patterns are worth the 5 star rating. It improved my models just by being exposed to the excellent content.Nevertheless, for practical concerns other than that, like applying MDA to the development of a web site, I don't think this is something that would immediately help you, besides, possibly the Archetype Patterns and the Literate Modeling technique could give you some help on the business modeling part, but, not to the actual intricacies of developing with MDA.I would like to see some of these ideas explored by the open source community to see how they would stand...

This book is excellent. I have been developing applications using MDA since 2001, most recently with ECO (Enterprise Core Objects) in .NET from CodeGear.com.The patterns in this book are very well thought out, I'd definately recommend this book for people creating business classes of ANY kind (not just MDA) who want to design their business model to be flexible.