Model Driven Architecture (MDA)

Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) helps developers manage complexity and work at increasingly higher levels of abstraction.

Model Driven Architecture is a "philosophy" of how models should be used in the software development process. Developers across the software industry are embracing this philosophy as they apply and evolve MDA principles as defined by the Object Management Group™ (OMG™) (link resides outside of ibm.com).

MDA guides architects and developers to more effectively define models at various levels of abstraction and to develop transformations among models, code, and other artifacts of the software lifecycle.