Intelliun is ramping up its participation in the Object Management Group, and as part of that effort I attended the OMG September Technical Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The conference hotel was actually inside the Disney World property, but it was on the opposite side from the Magic Kingdom, and a busy schedule didn't allow time to go frolic with the mouse.
Even without the full Disney experience, it was pretty fun. Aside from my presentation (a bit more on that below) there is exciting news on the Executable UML front, with the Semantics of a Foundational Subset for Executable UML Models being recommended for adoption and an RFP for a Concrete Syntax for a UML Action Language being recommened for issuance. The documents are slow-going, but I especially liked the appendix with a mapping of the formal semantics onto Java.
My presentation at the MDA Users SIG was How MDD Changes Software Development Processes. In short: you should be able to use your existing process (especially if it's an iterative approach), but there are some differences in scheduling, resource allocation and testing that you should probably take into account. I'll post the slides soon.
