Episode 8: Juha Pekka-Tolvanen on Domain-Specific Modeling

Guest: Juha Pekka-Tolvanen

Host: Daniel Steinberg

Every application domain has its own language. It has vocabulary,
rules, and constraints. Historically, we have written software by
implementing these vocabulary terms, rules, and constraints in a
"high-level language" such as C++ or Java, or using a modeling language
such as UML.

What gets Juha Pekka-Tolvanen of MetaCase out of bed every morning
is a desire to improve in a fundamental way the productivity of
software developers. He draws inspiration from studies that show
it possible to achieve 500% to 1000% improvements -- not just in
the speed of development, but also in the quality of the
software produced.

At ooPSLA, Pekka-Tolvanen will lead the

The 7th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling,
along with Jeffrey Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham),
Matti Rossi (Helsinki School of Economics), and Jonathan Sprinkle
(University of California, Berkeley).

This workshop will share community experience using domain-specific
modeling for software
development. Among the topics of the workshop are experience
reports from industry and academia, the creation of metamodel-based
languages, novel approaches for code generation from domain-specific
models, issues in supporting and maintaining systems built with DSMs,
and tool support. Papers range from typical information technology
domains to hard-core scientific areas such as nuclear physics and
the simulation of chemical processes.

In this podcast, Juha joins Daniel Steinberg of DimSumThinking to
talk about the process and benefits of creating domain-specific
models, the results of last year's workshop, and what is in store
for this year's workshop.