Stephen J. Mellor

"Executable UML"'s premise is that systems should be designed in a machine-readable way, and that code generation can be left to "model compilers" that take that design and produce the system's executables. The lead author, Stephen Mellor, has spent a great deal of time developing a 'profile' of UML that supports this notion. To prove that it's not just handwaving, the book uses a running example of a bookstore system, and provides the model sources for the bookstore on the book's web site.
Interesting idea... hard to tell if it works. Requested a copy of the tool the book's example uses, but it's been a month, and I haven't heard anything.

The book was a fairly easy read. I don't know if I can recommend it without seeing at least an example work, though.… (altro)