"CARE Technologies approach is very thorough as it is based on both scientific research and on extensive experience in applying the technology."

- Prof. Dr. Roel Wieringa. Universiteit Twente, Holland

CARE Technologies is pleased to announce Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling (Hardcover).

For software developers and architects, project managers, and people responsible for quality assurance, this book introduces all the relevant information required to understand and put MDA into industrial practice. Formal specification languages, object-oriented methods, CASE tools, component-based software production, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented ... During the last two decades many techniques have been proposed from both research and industry in order to generate a correct software product from a higher-level system specification. Nevertheless, the many failures in achieving this goal have resulted in scepticism when facing any new proposal that offers a "press the button, get all the code" strategy. And now the hype around OMG's MDA has given a new push to these strategies.

Written by Oscar Pastor and Juan Carlos Molina, this book combines a sound theoretical approach based on more than 10 years' research with industrial strength and practical software development experience. It presents a software process based on model transformation technology, thus making the statement "the model is the code" - instead of the common "the code is the model" - finally come true.

It is clearly explained which conceptual primitives should be present in a system specification, how to use UML to properly represent this subset of basic conceptual constructs, how to identify just those diagrams and modeling constructs that are actually required to create a meaningful conceptual schema, and, finally, how to accomplish the transformation process between the problem space and the solution space

This approach is fully supported by OLIVANOVA tools, and the subsequent software production process is dramatically more efficient than today's conventional software development processes, saving many man-days of work.

About the Authors

	Prof. Dr. Óscar Pastor opastor@dsic.upv.es Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Bio: PhD in 1992. Former researcher in HP Labs, currently professor at the Technical University of Valencia. Author of over 100 research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry. Research activities in object-oriented conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, information systems and model-based software production. Leader of the inital project behind CARE Technologies, undertaken since 1996 by the Technical University of Valencia and Consoft S.A., he is the brain behind the OLIVANOVA The Programming Machine, an advanced MDA-based set of tools that produces a final software product starting from a conceptual schema where the system requirements are captured.
	Juan Carlos Molina jcmolina@care-t.com CARE Technologies S.A. CHG Group, Spain. Bio:Research and Development Manager for CARE Technologies S.A., the company that develops the OLIVANOVA The Programming Machine, set of tools which fully support the MDA-based, conceptual model-centric software development approach described in this book. Former developer of applications for mainframe systems, he joined the initial project in the Technical University of Valencia in 1998 and has been part of the CARE Technologies team since its inception in 1999, where he spearheads initiatives to achieve the industrialization of software development leveraging modeling and model compilation technologies aligned with the MDA paradigm. Metamodels, model transformations definition and implementation are his main research interests.

If you want to buy this book, it is available in Amazon