Glossary

AOP:	Aspect-Oriented Programming
API:	Application Programming Interface
ASL:	Action-Semantic Language
AST:	Abstract Syntax Tree
ATL:	Atlas Transformation Language
BPM:	Business-Process Management
BPML:	Business-Process Modelling Language
CBD:	Component-Based Development
CWM:	Common Warehouse Metamodel
DDD:	Domain-Driven Design
DDL:	Data-Definition Language
DSL:	Domain-Specific Language
DSM:	Domain-Specific Modelling
DTD:	Document Type Definition
eCORE:	Metamodell im Kern des EMF Framework
EAI:	Enterprise Application Integration
EJB:	Enterprise Java Beans
EMF:	Eclipse Modelling Framework
ESB:	Enterprise Service Bus
FAST:	Family-Oriented Abstraction, Specification and Translation
GEF:	Graphical Editing Framework
GME:	Generic Modelling Environment
GMF:	Graphical Modelling Framework
GMT:	Generative Modelling Technology
GP:	Generative Programming
IDE:	Integrated Development Environment
JMI:	Java Metadata Interface
JVM:	Java Virtual Machine
KISS:	Knowledge Industry Survival Strategy
KobrA:	Komponentenbasierte Anwendungsentwicklung (German for Component-Based Application Development)
MDA:	Model-Driven Architecture
MDSD:	Model-Driven Software Development
MIC:	Model-Integrated Computing
MOF:	Meta-Object Facility
MOP:	Meta-Object Protocol
NOF:	Naked-Object Framework
OCL:	Object-Constraint Language
OMG:	Object Management Group
PIM:	Platform-Independent Model
PSM:	Platform-Specific Model
QVT:	Query View Transformation
SCA:	Service-Component Architecture
SEMAT:	Software Engineering Method and Theory
UML:	Unified Modelling Language
UUID:	Universally Unique ID
XMI:	XML Metadata Interchange
XML:	Extensible Markup Language
XP:	Extreme Programming
XSL:	Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT:	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations