Keynote - Axel UHL
- Axel UHL
Title: "Where Modeling Has Arrived - An Overview: Model-Driven Software Development at SAP"
Abstract: "Around the year 2000 the Object Management Group (OMG) coined the term and standard Model Driven Architecture in an attempt to bring model-driven software development to the enterprise and to increase its value by introducing standards that would allow for interoperable modeling solutions. Since then a lot has happened. By and large, the communities took some essential pieces such as the general metamodeling concepts underlying the Meta Object Facility (MOF) standard and important application modeling constructs from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and built their own incarnations of a model-driven software development environment. The relevance of de-jure standards such as those promoted by the OMG seemed on the decline.
At the same time, de-facto standards such as the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) were increasingly adopted. At SAP, Eclipse modeling technology is used to build façades for existing metadata- and model-driven tools, as well as for the construction of new development tools. While it seemed too hard to force existing tools into using modeling standards, wrapping them at least with EMF-compliant views is feasible.
See where and how SAP is using modeling technologies in its large set of development scenarios and how this relates to the progress in the world of modeling standards."