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Hello!

I always like to read printed conference announcements because they usually contain a short description of each session. These short descriptions are an excellent ways to see what’s currently ‘hot’. My latest copy of the MSDN Magazine contained an announcement of the Software Architect 2007 conference in June 2007.

I made a little game and counted the number of certain buzzwords in the session descriptions. One could think that those buzzwords with the highest number are the currently ‘hot’ topics. Please be aware that Microsoft is (the one) ‘Platinum Sponsor’ of this conference. So don’t expect much coverage of Java or UML. In the table below, each buzzword is counted once if it occurred one or more times in a session description.

Design orientied sessions	6
SOA	4
.NET	4
web service	3
Ajax	3
WCF	3
Pattern	2
Process oriented sessions	2
UML	2
Identity	2
ASP.NET	2
Agile	1
Biztalk	1
Domain Specific languages	1
Metrics	1
smart client	1
code generation	1
Visual Studio	1
Microsoft Motion	1

The ‘design oriented’ sessions column in the table above contains only those sessions that are independent of any technology. If a session was ‘design oriented’ but targeted for a specific technology (e.g. ‘The benefits of achieving a truly distributed SOA’) I added it to the technology. Interestingly, there was one session ‘Visualisation of SOA designs using UML and Enterprise Architect’ that mentions explicitly a non Microsoft UML modeling tool. I think this is another indication of Enterprise Architects high popularity.

Best regards,
Andreas

Technorati Tags: Software Architecture

Hello!

From October 10 – October 12, 2007 the AGTIVE ‘07 will take place in Kassel, Germany.
In general the topic of graph transformation is not specifically related to software modeling but this years AGTIVE will “put a special emphasis on the role graph transformation technology plays for model-driven system engineering languages, tools, and methods“.
As a tool vendor, I’d be particular interested in a presentation of the state of the art of OMGs model transformation language QVT (Query, View, Transformation).

Best regards,
Andreas

Technorati Tags: AGTIVE, graph transformation, QVT

Hello!

We have just released Oclarity 1.8.4.
Oclarity is our comprehensive OCL AddIn for Rational Rose. Oclarity helps you to create more precise, accurate and ultimately better UML models.

This is a bug fix release which adds the methods String.toReal() and String.toInteger() to Oclarities implementation of the OCL standard library.

Users of Oclarity can simply download and install the new version.

Best regards,
Andreas

Technorati Tags: Object Constraint Language, OCL, Rational Rose

 

Hello,

the deadline for the submission of abstracts for the ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2007) ends in less than 2 weeks. Scientific papers and “Experience papers” are both welcome.

The MODELS 2007 will take place at the end of September in Nashville, Tennesee.

The conference will be 5 days full of panels, tutorials, workshops and an exhibition of commercial tools all dedicated to the topic of model driven software development. I’m sure there will be lot of interesting stuff.

Best regards,
Andreas