Meta Object Facility

The Meta Object Facility (MOF) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard which provides an open-ended information modeling capability. MOF consists of a base set of meta-modeling constructs used to describe technologies and application domains, and a mapping of those constructs to CORBA IDL (Interface Definition Language) for automatically generating model-specific APIs. The MOF also defines a reflective programming capability that allows applications to query a model at runtime to determine the structure and semantics of the modeled system.

Although MOF is not directly utilized or exposed by the SDK, it is important as a foundation technology, and many of the SDK interfaces are the result of mapping MOF-compliant metamodels using the JMI code templates.