Markus Hebach, Borland

Markus Hebach is the Product Line Manager for Together Products and modeling technologies for EMEA at Borland. He joined Borland 2002 with the TogetherSoft acquisition, and has a history of 12 years working with, or close to Borland in different areas. Markus studied computer engineering in Frankfurt (Germany), worked as a programmer with Pascal and 4GL-Languages, was an independent trainer for Delphi and co-founded a publishing company for Developer-Magazines.

His position at Borland before taking his current role was senior technical consultant for UML and Together products with a total of 16 years experience in the software business. Markus is an accomplished speaker and has presented at many conferences, seminars and training courses throughout Scandinavia and Europe.

Presentation: "Practical MDA: Model-to-Model Transformation with QVT"

Time: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

While many think of MDA as just a way of separating Platform Independent Models (PIMs) and Platform Specific Models (PSMs), and then generating code from PIMs, the real advantage lies in model-to-model transformation, code generation being one kind of transformation. Working only in the PIM and generating code from it is not very practical and lacks flexibility. A different solution is needed.

In this session you will see how model-to-model transformation using Query View Transformation (QVT) and Object Constraint Language (OCL2) works. What are the benefits with this approach? How can you achieve true inter- and intra-model traceability between PIMs and PSMs to get around the limitations of model-synchronization?