Domain Driven Design vs Model Driven Architecture

Question

I am curious, what are the differences between Domain Driven Design and Model Driven Architecture? I have the impression they have certain similarities.

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Answer 1

The root of both Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is Model-Driven Engineering(MDE), also known as Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) if limited to the software development domain. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_development

All approaches falling under the MDE umbrella have one thing in common: a model. How this model is materialized depends on the specific MDE flavor.

MDA is regarded as overly complex. DDD is considered by some as too abstract. My personal favorite MDE implementations are DSM and ABSE (not listed on the Wikipedia article).