====== MetaObject Facility Specification (MOF) ======
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The **MetaObject Facility Specification (MOF)** is the foundation of OMG's industry-standard environment where models can be exported from one application, imported into another, transported across a network, stored in a repository, and then retrieved, rendered into different formats (including XMI™, OMG's XML-based standard format for model transmission and storage), transformed, and used to generate application code. These functions are not restricted to structural models, or even to models defined in UML - behavioral models and data models also participate in this environment, and non-UML modeling languages can partake also, as long as they are MOF-based. 

Source: [[https://www.omg.org/mof/index.htm ]]


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