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MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture™: Practice and Promise
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MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture™: Practice and Promise

by Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer, Wim Bast
April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 8m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix A. Glossary

Glossary

Abstraction

A broad and general term indicating (1) a less detailed model that conforms to (defines a subset of the properties of) another model, and (2) the process through which a less detailed but conforming model is made, that is, the process of removing details that are not relevant to the purpose of the model.

Abstraction Level

The inverse of the (relative) amount of details that are in a model.

See Also High Abstraction Level, Low Abstraction Level.

Communication Bridge

An implementation or model of communication between two parts of a system. Mostly used in a context where the parts of the system are realized using different technologies.

Coarse Grained Component

Components that have infrequent interaction with a ...

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