The CHOOSE executive board and Compuware AG are pleased to invite you to a half-day presentation by Wim Bast (Compuware Corporation, Amsterdam) on 'The essence of MDA'. Please note, that this is not a regular CHOOSE SIG-Beer event: - The event will take in Olten (see below), not in Bern - we charge a registration fee (see below) Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.choose.s-i.ch NOTE: registration for this event is required, as seating is limited. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. Registrations will be considered on a FCFS basis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The essence of MDA ================== Tuesday, 9. March 2004 Congress Hotel Olten Travel instructions: http://www.congresshotelolten.ch/ Registration fee: CHF 20 for CHOOSE and JUGS members CHF 50 for SI members CHF 100 for non-members Participants will receive a signed copy of Wim Bast's book ‘MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise’. Speaker ======= Wim Bast (Compuware Corporation, Amsterdam) Agenda ====== 08.30 -- 9.00 Registration + Coffee 09.00 -- 10.30 First part of the talk 10.30 -- 10.45 Coffee break 10.45 -- 12.00 Second part of the talk, Q + A Abstract ========   The presentation 'The essence of MDA' will discuss the following issues:   * The goals and the essence of MDA. * The balance between high productivity by abstraction and the also needed detailed control in software development. * How to realize the goals of MDA: the architecture of MDA tools and modeling languages. * What is not MDA and why so many misunderstandings exist about MDA. * The relation between OMG standards like UML, MOF, XMI, OCL, CWM and others. Bio === Wim Bast is Chief Architect at Compuware's Application Development and Integration Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Bast is responsible for the core architecture of Compuware’s Java development and integration solution, Compuware OptimalJ. He has worked for the Company for more than seven years, primarily focusing on integrating standard technologies, such as MDA and Java, into Compuware's tools. As Compuware’s main technical representative at the Object Management Group, Bast is directly involved in the development of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and its related standards, such as Meta Object Facility (MOF). He initiated the submission of the MOF 2.0 Query, View and Transformation Request for Proposal to the OMG. Bast is Compuware’s MDA expert, specializing in programming and modeling languages, as well as meta-modeling. He is co-author of the book ‘MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise’. He is a respected speaker on the topics of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Prior to joining Compuware, he worked as an information analyst and developed tools for meta-data exchange between development and design tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: The essence of MDA -- Mar 9, 2004 Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member, fee: CHF 20 [ ] JUGS member, fee: CHF 20 [ ] SI member, fee: CHF 50 [ ] Non-Member, fee: CHF 100 We will encash the registration fee on site. Please keep our live simple and don't show up with 200 franc notes :-) No-shows will be billed! choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/CHOOSE/