GignoMDA- MDA Approach for Applications in the Database Domain

Database Systems are often used as persistent layer for applications. This implies that database schemas are gen-erated out of transient programming class descriptions. The basic idea of the MDA approach generalizes this princi-ple by providing a framework to generate program code (and database schemas) for different programming plat-forms. Within our GignoMDA-project [1], we extended the classic concept of the MDA. That means, our approach provides a single point of information describing all as-pects of database applications (e.g. database schema, user interfaces, business logic and project documentation,...) with a great potential of cross-layer optimization. In addition to the full automatic generation of an complete multi-tier database applications we implemented in the GignoMDA-project, our new cross-layer optimization hints are a novel way for the challenging global optimization is-sue for database domain-specific applications.