Parts 1 through 5 discussed the details of our application integration framework design pattern.  A Business Analyst (BA) uses our DSL Visual Designer (as a RIA) that has our framework design pattern implemented to declaratively model specific application integration scenarios.  There is one optional point in the declaration where a small amount of custom code may be required and that is if a custom application adapter is required.  Other than that option, any application integration scenario, regardless of size or complexity can be 100% declaratively modeled using our DSL Visual Designer.

 

This goes directly to the point of why model driven development using the Software Factory approach works which in my opinion, represents the state of the art in software engineering today.  My inten