Sun Combines NetBeans, Software Architecture
Sun Microsystems Inc.'s NetBeans became the first major open source tools platform to implement the Model Driven Architecture approach to software design.Sun Microsystems Inc.s NetBeans became the first major open source tools platform to implement the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the company announced Tuesday. Sun officials said the company has contributed a series of modules supporting the Object Management Groups (OMGs) MDA to the NetBeans open source project. The information can be found at www.netbeans.org.
The MDA represents an advanced approach to software design based on models created using languages such as the Unified Modeling Language, or UML, the Palo Alto, Calif., company said. According to the OMGs approach, as business requirements change or evolve, components of model-driven applications can easily be replaced, as long as they are standards-based. Models use a set of metadatathe data describing the structure and characteristics of program elements or data.