Building Tools for Model Driven Development: Comparing Microsoft DSL Tools and Eclipse Modeling Plug-Ins

The development and wide adoption of CASE Tools that provide Code Generation from Models is one critical requirement to confirm the success of the Model Driven Software Development (MDSD). Main actors in the Software Development Industry are aware that they must provide technology and tools that allow building and/or adapting advanced CASE Tools to completely support MDSD. In this context, IBM and Borland, and other companies,(on the one hand)and Microsoft (on the other hand) are building advanced tools (Eclipse and DSL Tools respectively)that are trying to make easy the development and deployment of tools that support MDSD. This paper presents some conclusions about the current state of the tools that are extracted from the students' answers.