Steven Kelly on DSMDomain-Specific Modeling: A Toolmaker PerspectiveCode generation performance comparison- April 17, 2008 I've just finished booking our trip to Code Generation 2008, whose program is now published. One talk I'm particularly looking forward to is Bran Selic's keynote on how DSM can meet the highest standards of performance needed for generated code in Quality of Service constrained applications. Our experience too is that while generated code cannot outperform the best handwritten code (how could it), with DSM and domain-specific generators it does outperform the average handwritten code, so...http://www.metacase.com/blogs/stevek/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3385914921 Domain-Specific Modeling in universities- April 15, 2008 Alfonso Pierantonio contacted me about using our DSM book on an MDD course he is running at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. He's also researching important topics for DSM: model differencing, evolution and synchronization, and asked about our academic pricing for MetaEdit+. For some reason it only just occurred to me from that message that we should have a section on the DSM Forum site to list universities that teach or research DSM. I can find a lot of them from our customer list and my.http://www.metacase.com/blogs/stevek/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3385723679 XMI still a failure- April 9, 2008 Three years ago I posted about the lack of adoption and lack of tool interoperability for XMI: The OMG has XMI versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 2.0, with 2.1 under development. Looking on Google, I note that there are 865 XMI files on the web using 1.0, 78 for 1.1, 64 for 1.2, and 34 for 2.0 (released in 2003). That gives some indication of the adoption of XMI as a format, and tallies with my own impression. Everybody was interested when it first came out, but..http://www.metacase.com/blogs/stevek/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3385202330 Re: A framework for cross platform DSL development- April 4, 2008 Now that "domain-specific" has become something of a buzzword, people are eager to claim that what they do is domain-specific. For some, just naming a variable or XML tag "person" instead of "x" seems to be enough. For a great take on this from April 1st, see Anders' blog: "A framework for cross platform DSL development". There's a serious side to it as well: if your DSL or DSM solution locks you in to a certain programming language, IDE, or...http://www.metacase.com/blogs/stevek/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3384763776 |