Editing Meta-Object Facility (section)

== International standard ==
MOF is an international standard:
;MOF 2.4.2
:[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] 19508:2014 Information technology — Object Management Group Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core
;MOF 1.4
:[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] 19502:2005 Information technology — Meta Object Facility (MOF)

MOF can be viewed as a standard to write [[Metamodeling|metamodels]], for example in order to model the abstract syntax of [[Domain Specific Language]]s. [[Kermeta]] is an extension to MOF allowing executable actions to be attached to EMOF meta-models, hence making it possible to also model a DSL operational semantics and readily obtain an interpreter for it.

[[Java Metadata Interface|JMI]] defines a Java API for manipulating MOF models.

OMG's MOF is not to be confused with the Managed Object Format (MOF) defined by the [[Distributed Management Task Force]] (DMTF) in section 6 of the Common Information Model (CIM) Infrastructure Specification, version 2.5.0.<ref>[http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP0004_2.5.0.pdf Common Interface Model (CIM) Interface Structure, version 2.5.0]</ref>