Swainson: 'Let's start by defining 'on demand.' First, on demand reflects what our customers are doing with their businesses - streamlining their business processes to make them more flexible and adaptive to new markets and opportunities. They use information technology as a tool to integrate these processes, so obviously IT is a critical enabler of on demand.'

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is an open source code generation tool distributed under the Eclipse umbrella. It is a tool created in the spirit of the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and an excellent example of the power of MDA.