Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 Session Presentations

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1. Sergey Lipnevich Says:
   May 16th, 2006 at 10:53 am

   I really enjoyed the Increasing Speed to Delivery in Capital Markets talk (caution: link goes directly to a PowerPoint document). The presentation may not convey it in the best possible way, but they believe they found a very practical recipe to model-driven development using: a healthy mix of tools to automate the processand a clever design approach to avoid the need for round-trip engineering between models and code.

   Except for Microsoft’s Visual Studio and a promising Windows Workflow Foundation, there’s only one proprietory tool in their treasure chest, MagicDraw UML, the rest are free/open source software. Among the latter, AndroMDA is the most essential, with NHibernate being close second. Sapient reportedly contibuted their .Net Framework model “cartridges” to AndroMDA, which are used to convert UML class diagrams produced in MagicDraw into C# definitions. They are then utilizing home-grown Inversion of Control framework to inject implementation into hollow model code. The whole thing is held together with mandatory tests done with, what else, NUnit. By “mandatory” here I mean that these tests are not only necessary to deliver functionality, but are paramount in making this model-driven approach produce sane code.

   Among other interesting things they said was that NHibernate is working wonderfully well for them, and that Spring.Net on the contrary is “not there yet.”

2. Lab49 Blog » Blog Archive » Review of conference session “Increasing Speed to Delivery in Capital Markets” Says:
   May 16th, 2006 at 11:14 am

   [...] I’ve posted a brief review of the session I went to at Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 as a comment here to Matt’s post. [...]