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'Oslo' Takes Model-Driven Development Mainstream


Microsoft will deliver new technologies for composite applications

By David Worthington
October 30, 2007 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Microsoft today took the wraps off a model-driven development initiative called "Oslo" that will be a multiyear, multiproduct effort to develop new technology for customers to build, deploy, design and manage composite applications.

The technical investments from Oslo will be incorporated into the next generation of its application platform. The road map has five key components: BizTalk Server release 6, BizTalk Services release 1, .NET Framework version 4, Microsoft System Center release 5 and Visual Studio release 10—all of these names being provisional.

Burley Kawasaki, director of the connected systems division at Microsoft, explained that although composite applications and service-oriented architectures help breach boundaries across technologies by increasing agility and flexibility, the broader problem, human productivity, is not being addressed. Microsoft, he said, will create application development techniques that address the limitations of current approaches and turn the model into the application.

“Our vision is to make modeling a mainstream part of application development. We will provide the language, repository and tools to bridge disparate models,” Kawasaki said. He discussed what Microsoft views as the two fundamental limitations of current approaches to modeling: first, application models get out of sync with the application itself as it changes down the life cycle; and second, users lack a unified view.

“Everyone sees fragments, only the slice of the model that they think is important to them,” Kawasaki explained. Microsoft System Center release 5 will provide a repository for both business users and developers to collaborate across rolls and view the same version of the mode at the same time.

When asked what role SharePoint might play, Kawasaki noted that it was an important part of the company’s application platform and that Microsoft was determining use scenarios.

Models are written in the developer’s language of choice, and are converted into the .NET intermediary language MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) for interoperability, Kawasaki said. “[Developers] work with what they know.” Microsoft will work with its Microsoft Business Process Alliance partners to integrate models and runtimes into Visual Studio.


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