Integration of object oriented domain modeling and meta-modeling

Abstract

Despite a broad agreement on the benefits of model driven approaches to software engineering, the use of such techniques is still not very widespread. One of the major reasons is the appearing discouraging difficulty of metamodeling. This paper illustrates the relations, dependencies and differences between a traditional abstract object-oriented domain model and a meta-model for the same domain. It presents a new approach to model driven engineering of enterprise application software that integrates domain modeling and meta-modeling in order to take full advantage of both traditional and generative software development methods.