Yesterday I read this article and felt my fud-meters go tilt at the carefully positioned thought-link between piracy and open source. They surely know how to play this drum and are probably hoping to benefit from a decent share of minds resonating around the induced association... Makes me remember: Some years ago I remember this survey on how many people actually believed that microsoft had invented the Internet. Hm, don't remember if the asked group were exclusive gullible US citizens.

Today however I read up on the association between MDA and AOP Bill was implicitely making (see the quote, or the article) and that was recently injected in my own mind as well. (people wake up with the weirdest thoughts)
Given the fact that roundtripping is *the* biggest thing in te MDA setup that makes me doubth the whole approach the most, we might consider mixin in AOP to save the day! Generate from UML the obvious and simple, then add-on the aspects using AOP, and not relying on reverse engineering nor highly advanced/unnatural/ tool specific UML addiditions to let the generator produce your specific implementation nuance on the standard/basic UML.

One last thing: Adrian, be sure to let us know when the book hits the shelves and try to keep doing this montly digest even when you are back into regular blogging mode :-)