Open Fishbowl: Modeling vs. Solving Problems
Abstract
Modelers often come with a plethora of frameworks and tools in order to abstract from underlying technology. They often invest many months to create rich featured modeling tools, new languages, and code generators. In the end we all have to deliver a maintainable piece of software according to the requirements, don’t we? How does all this modeling stuff help here? Shouldn’t we just solve the problem at hand and get rid of that overhead?
Speaker
Sven Efftinge, Branch Manager itemis Kiel
Sven Efftinge manages the itemis branch in Kiel and engages himself there with domain specific languages, generator development and eclipse technologies. He is an eclipse committer and is responsible for the Xtext-framework and architect of the Xpand-language family (also known as openArchitectureWare).
Sven Efftinge regularly speaks at software conferences, writes professional articles and is co-author of the book “Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung”, (Model-Driven Software Development) (published at dpunkt-Verlag).
Ed Merks, Development manager for Eclipse Modeling
Merks comes from IBM, where he last worked in the IBM Rational Toronto Lab. He leads the Eclipse Modeling Project and the Eclipse Modeling Framework and will work for itemis AG from Canada. Merks graduated from Simon Fraser University and holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science.