Advance Praise for the "Common Warehouse Metamodel Developer's Guide"

"CWM Developer's Guide breaks new ground by providing an in-depth overview of Model Driven Integration for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence tool chain using innovative meta data design patterns. The use of UML and MOF to define platform-independent models while simultaneously targeting both XML and Java-based meta data management using XMI and JMI is supported with numerous examples.  Software architects, CTOs, systems integrators, and vendors grappling with the complexity of tool, data, and application integration can learn firsthand the power of OMG Model Driven Architecture from this pioneering book."

Sridhar Iyengar
IBM Distinguished Engineer, OMG Architecture Board

"The first CWM book, Common Warehouse Metamodel: An Introduction, has become a great complement to the CWM specifications. This follow-on book delves even deeper into the implementation world, which is critical to the success of any standard. This developer's  guide establishes a key transition from 'paper standards' to actual adopted standards for tool integration. Common Warehouse Metamodel Developer's Guide is not only well written, but also well focused on applications related to the standards. I highly recommend this second book to anyone who wants to transform standards into reality in their product strategy."

Christian H. Bremeau
President and CEO, Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI)

"Common Warehouse Metamodel Developer's Guide is a highly practical guide to a powerful new way of integrating systems in the data warehousing and business analysis domains.  By leveraging this new standard for modeling and exchanging application, tool, and instance meta data, the authors show how representing common business and domain concepts as higher-level abstractions can solve complex, real-world integration problems. Model-based development has the potential to vastly simplify the increasingly complex issues faced by developers in building integrated solutions in today's distributed, heterogeneous environments, and CWM is the leading example of the success of this approach." 

Chuck Mosher
Staff Engineer, Market Development Engineering, Sun Microsystems

"This book illustrates how CWM is used not only to describe complex data warehousing systems, but also to facilitate interoperability and integration. It is an excellent guide for anyone interested in developing platform-independent domain models and leveraging domain models for integration and information exchange."

Ravi Dirckze
JMI 1.0 Specification Lead and Senior Software Engineer, Unisys Corporation