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Forrester Report Shows Developers Reluctant To Adopt MDA

Posted by: Nitin Bharti on January 18, 2005 DIGG
A pair of Forrester Research reports show developer preference for model-driven development over OMG’s prescribed model-driven architecture (MDA). The reports also show that developers are taking advantage of the flexibility offered by patterns-based development over code generation.

The two reports, titled "Model-Driven Matters More Than MDA" and "Pattern-Based Development Appeals" are based on surveys with more than 350 IT groups.
When companies hear about MDA, they are superficially interested, but when they realize what it entails, they back away. They fear MDA is rigid, is slow and will be difficult to implement, said Carl Zetie, an analyst in Forrester's application development and infrastructure research group, who is the author of the two reports.

Despite the marketing hype made by tools vendors around MDA, the report discusses how there is little support by so-called MDA products beyond sophisticated transformations or simple code generation, and this is precisely the extent to which companies are doing MDA.
According to the second report, code generation from abstract models is being used modestly with many IT organizations concerned about constraints in the generated code.
With generation-based approaches, there is little flexibility and more fuss about the generation process. When companies commit themselves 100% to code generation, there is little room for tweaking, especially when developers always have to go through their model, Zetie said.
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