Model-Driven Architecture

Kind: approach

Layer: Declarative Core

Aliases: MDA

Record: architecture:model-driven-architecture

Severity: contextual

Scope: system, code generation, domain model

Canonical: Ontology

An approach in which a formal model is the source of truth and the implementation is generated from it by transformation rules.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Language-Oriented Programming and before Artificial Intelligence Architecture.

Requires

• Formal Model
• Transformation Rules

Reinforces

• Metadata-Driven Design

Enables

• Generated Implementations

Conflicts with

• Handwritten Divergence

Violated by

• Handwritten Divergence

Refactored by

• Code Generation
• Model Evaluation

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture

Linked from

• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Core Vocabulary
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Severity levels