Architecture of OMG MOF-based repository systems

ABSTRACT

Metadata repository systems store metadata in the form of models and meta-models. In this paper we introduce a general architecture of a MOF repository system and describe its modules. In addition, we examine the architectures of several existing MOF repositories such as MDR, EMF, dMOF and iRM and illustrate how these related to the proposed general architecture.

REFERENCES

• 1: Mary Shaw , David Garlan, Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1996
• 2: Bernstein, P. Repositories and Object-Oriented Databases. Proceedings of BTW '97, Springer, March 1997
• 3: David Shutt , Philip A. Bernstein , Thomas Bergstraesser , Jason Carlson , Shankar Pal , Paul Sanders, Microsoft repository version 2 and the open information model, Information Systems, v.24 n.2, p.71-98, April 1999 [doi>10.1016/S0306-4379(99)00006-X]
• 4: Philip A. Bernstein , Umeshwar Dayal, An Overview of Repository Technology, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, p.705-713, September 12-15, 1994
• 5: CDIF - Integrated Meta-Model EIA CDIF documents EIA/IS-111 EIA/IS-112, EIA/IS-114, EIA/IS-115
• 6: CDIF CASE Data Interchange Format - Overview EIA CDIF document EIA/IS106
• 7: Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC). dMOF Version 1.1. User guide. 2000.
• 8: ISO/IEC 10027:1990 Information Technology - Information Resource Dictionary System Framework 1990- 06--15
• 9: ISO/IEC 10728, Information Technology - Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) Services Interface, April 1993
• 10: ISO/IEC 13238-3, Information Technology - Data Management - Part 3: IRDS export/import facility, Dec. 1998
• 11: Henry C. Lefkovits, IBM's repository manager/MVS: concepts, facilities, and capabilities, QED Information Sciences, Inc., Wellesley, MA, 1991
• 12: M. Matula, NetBeans Metadata Repository (White Paper). March 2003 http://mdr.netbeans.org/MDR-whitepaper.pdf (checked 17.12.2007) see also http://mdr.netbeans.org/architecture.html (checked 17.12.2007)
• 13: Object Management Group: Meta Object Facility Specification Version 1.4. http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/mof.htm
• 14: OMG. XMI - XML Metadata Interchange Specification. Version 2.0. OMG Document formal/03-05-02, May 2003
• 15: SUN. JMI - Java Metadata Interface Specification Version 1.0, June 2002
• 16: JMI reference implementation. Unisys Corporation. JMI-RI Documentation. CIM Guide. Version 1.3. October 2002
• 17: Unisys Universal Repository Manager, http://www.unisys.com/marketplace/urep/
• 18: Lois Wakeman , Jonathan Jowett, PCTE: the standard for open repositories, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1994
• 19: Adaptive Ltd. Adaptive Enterprise Repository (White Paper). May 2007 http://www.adaptive.com/resources_papers/technology.html (checked 17.12.2007)
• 20: Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/ (checked 17.12.2007)
• 21: SAP MMR https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a1a0eb43-0b01-0010-23aa-908cc4eaabcd (checked 17.12.2007)
• 22: SAP MOIN http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2007/interviews/AxelUhlInterview.pdf (checked 17.12.2007)
• 23: S. Iyengar. "A universal repository architecture using the OMG UML and MOF". In proc. Second International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop, 1998. EDOC'98. pp. 35--44. Nov 1998
• 24: M. Scheidgen. "On Implementing MOF 2.0 -- New Features for Modelling Language Abstractions" Technical Report. Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin Institut fuer Informatik. Juli 2005. http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~scheidge/downloads/OnMof2.pdf (checked 17.12.2007)
• 25: Hand-written vs. MOF-based Metadata Repositories: The SOFA Experience, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, p.329, May 24-27, 2004
• 26: Novosoft NSUML. Novosoft Metadata Framework and UML Library. 2003. http://nsuml.sourceforge.net/ (checked 17.12.2007)
• 27: ModFact JMI Metadata Repository, Electronically available under http://modfact.lip6.fr/top.html (checked 17.12.2007)
• 28: I. Petrov, S. Jablonski, M. Holze. "Towards Efficient Locking of Repository Objects in OMG MOF Repository Systems". In: Proceedings of IADIS Internat. Conference (IADIS), October 2004. pp. 855--859.

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
architecture, metadata, metadata repository systems