Integrated Model-Based Software Development, Data Access, and Data Migration

Abstract

Abstract. In this paper we describe a framework for robust system maintenance that addresses specific challenges of data-centric applications. We show that for data-centric applications, classical simultaneous roundtrip engineering approaches are not sufficient. Instead we propose an architecture that is an integrated model-based approach for software development, database access and data migration. We explain the canonical development process to exploit its features. We explain how the approach fits into the model-driven architecture vision. We report on experiences with the approach in the IMIS environmental mass database project.

Business Process Technology

“…The synonyms for executable specification range from old ones like automatic programming [279] to today's model-driven architecture [248,40,90,91].…”

Model-Driven Data Migration

“…As observed by [136], one important drawback of most schema evolution approaches is the lack of abstraction which remains largely unsolved. As a result, typically data conversion tasks in information systems evolution projects are left to programmers [41,23].…”

Software Language Evolution

“…Draheim et alpropose a matching approach for object-oriented schemas that are mapped to relational schemas via object-relational mapping [Draheim et al, 2004, Bordbar et al, 2005. For simple changes, they generate SQL statements for updating the relational schema and Java code for data migration which can be customized.…”