The Object Constraint Language is a precise text language that provides constraint and object query expressions on any MOF model or meta-model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation.

Beyond the M3-model, MOF describes the means to create and manipulate models and metamodels by defining CORBA interfaces that describe those operations.

The Object Management Group ( OMG ) has developed a metamodeling architecture to define the Unified Modeling Language ( UML ), called the Meta-Object Facility ( MOF ).

MOF originated in the Unified Modeling Language ( UML ); the OMG was in need of a metamodeling architecture to define the UML.

MOF is a Domain Specific Language ( DSL ) used to define metamodels, just as EBNF is a DSL for defining grammars.

In short MOF uses the notion of MOF :: Classes ( not to be confused with UML :: Classes ), as known from object orientation, to define concepts ( model elements ) on a metalayer.

MOF may be used to define object-oriented metamodels ( as UML for example ) as well as non object-oriented metamodels ( as a Petri net or a Web Service metamodel ).

The MOF format is a specific syntax to define CIM class representation in an ASCII file ( e. g. MIB are to SNMP what MOF files are to CIM ).

The MOF is a metamodel ( a model of any kind of metadata ) used notably to define the Unified Modeling Language ( or UML ).

Because of the similarities between the MOF M3-model and UML structure models, MOF metamodels are usually modeled as UML class diagrams.

MOF can be viewed as a standard to write metamodels, for example in order to model the abstract syntax of Domain Specific Languages.

In particular, it attempts to provide a mechanism for facilitating the exchange of any arbitrary modeling language defined by the OMG's Meta-Object Facility ( MOF ).

* MOF – Meta Object Facility, an OMG language for specifying metamodels.

This M3-model is the language used by MOF to build metamodels, called M2-models.

For defining metamodels, MOF plays exactly the role that EBNF plays for defining programming language grammars.

This approach is based on the utilization of a language to write metamodels called the Meta Object Facility or MOF.

As of June 2006 the latest version of UML is 2. 1, MOF is 2. 0 and XMI is 2. 1.

These together provide the foundation for Model Driven Architecture ( MDA ), and related set of standards, building upon the success of UML and MOF.

Image: Blair MOF. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Image: Howard MOF. jpg | Former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard receiving the Medal from George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Given the maximum observed frequency ( MOF ) for a mode on each day of the month at a given hour, the MUF is the highest frequency for which an ionospheric communications path is predicted on 50 % of the days of the month.

The Microsoft Operations Framework ( MOF ) is based on ITIL v2.

While ITIL deliberately aims to be platform-agnostic, MOF is designed by Microsoft to provide a common management framework for its products.

Microsoft has mapped MOF to ITIL as part of their documentation of the framework.

The transaction gave MOF Inc a 70 % stake and Cyberview has remained a government-owned company ever since.

The Meta-Object Facility ( MOF ) is an Object Management Group ( OMG ) standard for model-driven engineering.

MOF is designed as a four-layered architecture.

The most prominent example of a Layer 2 MOF model is the UML metamodel, the model that describes the UML itself.

A supporting standard of MOF is XMI, which defines an XML-based exchange format for models on the M3 -, M2 -, or M1-Layer.

MOF is a closed metamodeling architecture ; it defines an M3-model, which conforms to itself.

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