OpenMDX

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OpenMDX
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Developer(s) Werner Froidevaux, Harald Burger, Andy Nyffenegger, Chris Mueller, at OMEX AG.
Stable release
2.13.0 / August 1, 2014 (2014-08-01)
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Software framework
License BSD
Website http://www.openmdx.org/

OpenMDX is an open-source model-driven architecture (MDA) software platform, a framework suited for domain-driven design (DDD). It is based on the Object Management Group's MDA standards. OpenMDX supports Java SE, Java EE, and .NET runtime environments. openMDX enables software architects and developers to build and integrate software applications in an automated and industrialized way.

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Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model-driven architecture is a kind of domain engineering, and supports model-driven engineering of software systems. It was launched by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2001.

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software providing generic functionality can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. A software framework provides a standard way to build and deploy applications. A software framework is a universal, reusable software environment that provides particular functionality as part of a larger software platform to facilitate development of software applications, products and solutions. Software frameworks may include support programs, compilers, code libraries, tool sets, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that bring together all the different components to enable development of a project or system.

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