OMG Meta Object Facility,
Common Warehouse Metamodel
Common Warehouse Metamodel
nObject Management Group www.omg.org/mof/
World’s largest software consortium – MOF contributions from BEA Systems, Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology, Data Access, Digital Equipment, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, International Computers, MicroFocus, Objectivity,
Oracle, Platinum Technology, Rational Software, System Software Associates, Unisys
World’s largest software consortium – MOF contributions from BEA Systems, Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology, Data Access, Digital Equipment, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, International Computers, MicroFocus, Objectivity,
Oracle, Platinum Technology, Rational Software, System Software Associates, Unisys
nOMG Model-Driven
Architecture (MDA) Standards
nTransportable methodology-independent (UML, RUP + others) Enterprise Model self-defining Meta-Metadata
Standard
nRepository &
heterogeneous interface transition mapping
nOpen-ended technology-independent Enterprise Model
with platform-specific integrated code generation concepts
with platform-specific integrated code generation concepts
nFour-Layer Metamodel Architecture: (1) User Object Layer
(data instances), (2) Model Layer (metadata, Classes, Tables, etc.), (3) Metamodel Layer (Metadata structure
& semantics – Modeling languages), (4) Meta-Metamodel Layer (Semantics of metamodeling
languages)
Other competing standards & proprietary
repository metadata formats