Speakers: Atzmon Hen-Tov and Lior Schachter, Pontis 

Title: Pontis' Interpretive MDD platform

Abstract
In recent years, many development organizations have adopted the
Model-Driven Development (MDD) approach.  MDD enhances productivity and
quality by allowing developers to design a system using the appropriate
level of abstraction.  While most MDD implementations use a generative
approach (i.e. code-generation), we introduce a development platform based
on the interpretive approach.  This platform integrates the principles
of Dependency Injection and Meta-Modeling to form an interpretive,
domain-specific modeling technology. These principles are complemented
by true IDE integration that provides developers with the same advanced
level of usability for modeling that they have grown accustomed to in
their programming environments.  The lecture describes the practices
we employed to create and maintain a large-scale, formal model over
time. These practices have been used at Pontis Ltd. (www.pontis.com)
for the last two years, by a 20+ person team developing and implementing
Business Support Systems for Communication Service Providers.