Design to Accommodate Change
Table driven techniques to allow systems to change without major code changes.
MDA: Revenge of the Modelers or UML Utopia?
At OOPSLA 2003 Dave Thomas (the founder of OTI) gave a thoughtful and powerful critique of Model Driven Architecture. In this column he explains why he thinks a universal model-driven approach is likely to fail, and points out that the UML and Domain Specific Languages still have value.