SOA and MDA: Service-Oriented and Model-Driven Strategies After The Hype – The Reality

More than 300 delegates attended the successful OMG Information Days 2006 events in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich to learn what SOA means for their software development and how the concrete implementation might look. Remember:

Services do not just appear out of thin air

They have to be developed and maintained! To close the gap between business processes and “IT” different architectures, development paradigms, platforms etc must be united.

OMG Information Days

The most significant challenges that have to be mastered with the help of Service-Oriented Architectures are related to:

• the increasing speed at which business processes are developed,
• the scope of the existing productive core applications,
• the quality requirements,
• the demands of security.

A range of interesting presentations, in particular on the subject of the practical implementation of SOA, were given at the OMG Information Days 2006. The OMG keynote speakers judged that models, standards and software generators are imperative to keep up with change driven by agile business processes.

The keynote presentation by independent consultant Nicolai Josuttis “SOA – Between aspirations and reality“ gave useful insights into what it really means to introduce SOA into a large organisation. In fact, “Services do not just appear out of thin air”.

Efficient Service Enablement Using Models and Generators

Rüdiger Schilling, CTO at Delta Software Technology, presented model-based concepts and generative tools for service enablement that really work. You can download his presentation (currently only available in German) here – for free – no registration required.

SOA und MDA - Wie geht es wirklich? Effizientes Service Enablement durch Modelle und Generatoren.

Free Article on Automating Service Development

Would you like more information? Then read Rüdiger Schilling’s latest article in OBJEKTspektrum “Services – Where To Get Them? Generating Is Better Than Programming“. Download this free article now – no registration required:

Further Information

If you would like to know more about how Delta can help you to service enable your legacy applications then please contact your local sales representative.