ENHANCING CLOUD SAAS DEVELOPMENT WITH MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE

Cloud computing is a leading edge computing paradigm in which massively scalable and dynamically configured resources are offered remotely as services, over a network. With rapid transitions in hardware and software technologies, as witnessed in the recent years, the biggest challenge posed to the IT industry is technology obsolescence. Consequently, there arises a need for a software development approach that could mitigate the undesirable effects of technology change. The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach to software development becomes an obvious choice. In this approach, the models drive the process of software development. These models are specified at different levels of abstraction and automated tools are used for model-to-model and model-to-code transformations between the levels. In this paper, the authors endeavour to explore the MDA approach for developing cloud software applications so that the ensuing software solutions are more robust, flexible and agile, in the wake of constantly evolving technologies.

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