Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture

From the Book: At one time, the title for this book was Executable UML For Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) Using Aspect-Oriented (AO) Techniques with Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Modeling (AM), and Other Agile Alliance (AA) Processes as an Instance of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Eventually, we settled instead on Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture. This title is snappier, but it's not fully buzzword-compliant, nor is it as descriptive as the original. So what is this Executable UML? It is a profile of UML that allows you, the developer, to define the behavior of a single subject matter in sufficient detail that it can be executed. In this sense, the model is like code,…