Using MDA to Manage Metadata

An Overview of MOF^TM, XMI^®, and JMI

Audience: IT executives, IT managers, senior architects, and senior developers

Duration: Half day

Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of UML is helpful but not required.

Abstract: This seminar provides an architectural overview of the MDA technologies that support model-driven metadata management. It explains the increasing importance and volume of metadata in today’s enterprises as well as the fragmentation in how metadata is managed. It discusses the OMG’s Meta Object Facility (MOF) and XMI standards in some detail, and describes how they are related to UML^TM and XML. It also covers Sun Microsystem’s Java Metadata Interface (JMI) standard, which is closely related to MOF. The tutorial also examines why MDA must support multiple modeling languages and explains the fundamental role that MOF plays in folding languages other than UML into the MDA space.

Outline:

   Overview
      Metadata Fragmentation
      Introduction to MOF
      MOF Isn’t Just for OO Languages
      Abstract Syntax Graphs
      Model Driven Metadata Management
   Drill Downs
      MOF-CORBA Mapping (CMI)
      MOF-XML Mapping (XMI)
      MOF-Java Mapping (JMI)
      Metalevels
      Using UML Tools to Create MOF Metamodels
   Additional Topics
      Human Usable Textual Notations
      XML-MOF Reverse Mapping
      MOF in the Computer Industry
      MOF Weaknesses and Future Directions

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Using MDA to Manage Metadata

An Overview of MOFTM, XMI®, and JMI

An Overview of MOF^TM, XMI^®, and JMI