The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) has been defined by the Object Management Group (OMG). The OMG is a non-profit consortium. The promise of MDA is to manage models instead of coding using a programming language. Models are built using Unified Modeling Language (UML), another creation of the OMG.

Dream of reality? I think it's just the natural way to a higher level of abstraction, like the way from assembly to high level languages like C. So MDA (or something like that) will be a reality but we do not know exactly when. In the meantime, it's important to learn MDA. Just to be ready.

Here are some links to start with MDA:
- MDA home page on the OMG
- MDA to Revolutionise Application Development, a free 30 minutes webinar from Compuware with some explanation about Compuware OptimalJ
- MDA tools from modelbased.net
- MDA: the vision with the hole?, by Ashley McNeile

I will upgrade this list if have some new interesting links. Of course you can use the comments if you have some.