1. Any kind of meta PBE patterns?

2. PBE can introduce special concerns regarding model structures.

3. The PBE Patterns and Guidelines provide support as we identify, design, create, package and consume patterns.

4. InfoQ: PBE is an example of Model-driven development (MDD) mostly as a result of using the engineering metaphor as a philosophical base.

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5. The use of the PBE Practice provides additional guidance in regards to pattern relationships to other patterns, tasks that are performed and workflow timing.

6. Is PBE as presented in your book also a first step that needs to be followed almost by rote, then adapted, and then ultimately transcended?

7. To this end, within PBE we provide 3 constructs: a set of core values, a development practice and a set of patterns and guidelines.

8. In the case of the PBE patterns, these are indeed meta-patterns - that is, patterns for working with patterns.

9. IBM has developed a novel MDD and pattern-based engineering (PBE) process, along with associated tooling, which simplifies and automates the use of constraints within a model.

10. Rational Software Architect is an example of a tool that provides full support for automated patterns and pattern-based engineering (PBE).

11. Throughout the book you mention the possibility of automating PBE and the use of patterns.

12. What role might these "non-software engineering" patterns play in PBE?

13. With that said, those patterns can be used in combination with the PBE patterns.

14. We've already mentioned the Patterns and Guidelines, so we'd like to take a minute to discuss the PBE Practice.

15. Within this component, we detail the roles, tasks, work products, deliverables and workflow associated with PBE.

16. We can then build upon this base with the PBE Patterns and Guidelines and the associated PBE Practice.

17. With that in mind, we'd change the question around a bit to state: "What role might PBE play in non-software engineering situations?".

18. At this point, we have provided a catalog of PBE patterns (and related guidelines).